Fractal is a modular, extensible and programming language agnostic component model that can be used to design, implement, deploy and reconfigure systems and applications, from operating systems to middleware platforms and to graphical user interfaces. The goal of Fractal is to reduce the development, deployment and maintenance costs of software systems in general, and of ObjectWeb projects in particular.
The Fractal component model has the following important features:
recursivity : components can be nested in composite components (hence the "Fractal" name).
reflectivity : components have full introspection and intercession capabilities.
component sharing : a given component instance can be included (or shared) by more than one component. This is useful to model shared resources such as me