Empowering communities to develop their languages.

http://www.springframework.net/

For some background on inversion of control, see http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html

Unfortunately, this is not anything like a complete desktop application framework. The only good-looking one that we have seen, Microsoft's CAB, but its license doesn't allow us to use it except on a Windows platform.

Benefits

In addition to the normal benefits of using inversion of control, we think this might allow us get started with allowing for plug-ins without a lot of work. We'll see.