Similar ideas in Hivemind : http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/dnd-demo-clipped.gif http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/dnd-demo-clipp...

Similar ideas in Hivemind : http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/dnd-demo-clipped.gif http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/dnd-demo-clipp... The basic idea being to visually compose applications and fill in the gap with code that glues things together. The benefit with such approach is that the tool does the architectural heavy lifting so that a moderately skilled programmer can implement sophisticated business applications with ease. Think excel for business software that isn't visual basic.