Documenting frameworks using patterns

@article{Johnson1992DocumentingFU,
  title={Documenting frameworks using patterns},
  author={Ralph E. Johnson},
  journal={Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications},
  year={1992},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:604969}
}
This paper shows one way to document frameworks with patterns, and includes a set of patterns for HotDraw as an example to see how well patterns work to describe a framework.
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