we do parts of what you describe: an app is indeed specified in a quite abstract way (http://framework.joshfire.com/doc/0.9/gettingstarted/overview http://fram

we do parts of what you describe: an app is indeed specified in a quite abstract way (http://framework.joshfire.com/doc/0.9/gettingstarted/overview http://framework.joshfire.com/doc/0.9/gettingstarted/overvie...), however we don't go as far as implementing automatic transforms from multiple panels to a composite one for instance. these choices are left to the developer but we make their implementation easy.