Motivation 

Let us imagine you want to add two different add-ons to a basic component and these add-ons enhance the same sections of the basic component and partially change them incompatibly. Previously, you would have required three systems for this – one for the unchanged basic component and one each for the basic component with the enhancements/changes of the relevant add-on – which entails a large amount of extra work and effort for corrections, maintenance, and upgrades. After all, you would be supplying three systems instead of one.

It would be significantly easier if you could keep the basic component, the basic component and add-on 1, and the basic component and add-on 2 separately but in a single system and then simply specify which of the three components you want to work with. Precisely this is possible with the Switch Framework, and you can drastically reduce the amount of effort required for the development and maintenance of the different add-ons.

The Switch Framework enables you to enhance or change a component, retain the original component as well as the enhancements/changes in the same system, and then decide whether to work only with the original component, or with the original component and one of the then activated enhancement components.