Evolve is a revolutionary new UML-based tool for creating, wiring up and executing components. It currently supports Java.

It has just gone into public beta, and we invite you to try it out.

http://intrinsarc.com/evolve/what-is-evolve

Have a look at the screenshots at:

http://intrinsarc.com/evolve/screenshots

Evolve is a more powerful and principled alternative to dependency injection. At its heart is a far richer component model than other approaches.

Evolve features the following:

• A UML-based graphical editor for components.
• A powerful component model with full connectors. This avoids the wiring limitations of DI.
• The architecture is always explicit as UML diagrams, which are kept automatically synchronized with the code.
  (No more large XML files, or annotations smattered throughout the code)
• Evolution support is built-in. Systems created with Evolve have the remarkable feature of being always extensible.
• Open source runtime

Evolve comes from the commercialization of cutting-edge academic research into components and highly extensible systems at Imperial College, London. Try it out, and let us know what you think.