  The new multipurpose event-generation framework SHERPA, acronym for
Simulation for High-Energy Reactions of PArticles, is presented. It is entirely
written in the object-oriented programming language C++. In its current form,
it is able to completely simulate electron--positron and unresolved
photon--photon collisions at high energies. Also, fully hadronic collisions,
such as, e.g., proton--anti-proton, proton--proton, or resolved photon--photon
reactions, can be described on the signal level.
