RonKyle (10/7/2010)
RAP is in the same spirit. The objective is to properly and systematically do what most programmers currently do both imporperly and inconsistently. They do these things poorly because they're being paid to create functionality, not diddle with plumbing, and so the plumbing always gets short shrift and is done as an afterthought.
Most of what you just said in your post sounds interesting, but the paragraph above just does not reflect the complete reality. Some of us have put a lot of time into our programming to ensure the plumbing is done "correctly", in the sense of efficiency. And when sometimes time doesn't permit, take the time to refactor the code at a later date. I think you would find that your ideas might have more traction if you avoided the negative statements.
Ron: I'm sorry if I seem overly negative to you. It's just that I can't see the point of people doing all this mundane stuff by hand, even if in most places (as you assert) they are doing it consistently and systematically. Maybe we come from radically different environments. If I were not profoundly annoyed by the stuff I see in most designs, I wouldn't have spent much of my free time over the last five years trying to automate the generation of appication infrastructure.