Gundotra (Google) says Facebook and MySpace aren't true platforms but are extensible applications, similar to Office in the Windows world.
Domeo (47) is an extensible web application that enables users to efficiently create, curate, refine and share free-form and ontology-based annotations on online textual documents.
This way it is possible to support the diverse and often changing biological requirements with an extensible database application that can grow and adapt with evolving needs, while being much easier to maintain and develop than would be possible using the more rigid traditional development process.
In addition to promoting modularity, JPF also makes applications extensible by using plug-in extension points and extensions.
The RSNA Clinical Trial Processor CTPP) [ 7] is a highly configurable and extensible stand-alone application that provides processing features such as import services, export services, storage service and processor services for clinical trials.
While stream processing blocks are delivered as a standard, yet extensible, library of application-independent processing elements, chains can be defined by the pervasive application engineering team.
Design patterns have been widely used for developing flexible, extensible and perceptible applications to produce effective, reliable, verifiable and easily maintained software systems.
Consideration is given to the use of software engineering paradigms and design patterns to produce a code-base that is manageable, efficient, and extensible for future applications, while being scalable to work with large datasets.
However, CloudSim is a generalized and extensible simulation toolkit and application which enables seamless modeling, simulation, and experimentation of emerging cloud computing system, infrastructures and application environments for single and internetworked clouds [33, 34, 35].
