Application sculpture
A good way to gain experience with anything, is to get your hands dirty. In my case that would be to start implementing a system to gain experience with Java Spring programming framework. While I code the first draft of this system, I get some insights which I better jot down here before I loose my train of thought. I have been thinking about rapid application development ideas for over a year, and think "how can a development such as this be made significantly faster and easier while keeping the expression power of contemporary programming platforms?", and "how would a development environment of the distant future look like?". The short version; To use a future programming environment today; search out and use a modelling tool like Poseidon for UML . The longer version; Implement a new development language. One that gives a totally new development environment, a new platform and new everything. One that dramatically shortens the time from modelling to test...