JStewart

At ICON Technologies we use Sciware GOOP Developer for every project. It's faster than the free Endevo GOOP and supports inheritance, which helps us solve a lot of the design problems we used to run into with the other GOOPs. For example, in a recent data logger project we were able to build generic data acquisition and logging modules that each allowed us to use "hot-swappable" objects. Adding another type of acquisition or logging then became as simple as inheriting from the generic data acquisition or logging interface and writing the code to acquire or log the data. The modules handled the rest, and we could swap objects in and out at runtime (very useful for debugging). The result is that we now have a generic logging framework that's very easy to extend to other types of acquisition and logging.