EDMA 0.15.7.7 Beta

What makes EDMA different from other systems is that GNU EDMA does most of the processing dynamically, that is, at run-time.

The EDMA Team calls this, generically, Loosely Coupled Object Oriented Systems (LOOCOS). Other people names this systems: delegation based, object inheritance based, etc.

So, you can establish inheritance relationships among objects or even, you can dynamically override virtual methods, while the applications is running. Working this way you can build more real_life-like models and simplify a lot of common operations which, in most cases, needs complex patterns. Design patterns like Proxies, Factories, Facades, etc... are implicit in the EDMA programming model (in general in any delegation based system).

In addition to all this, the programming interface provided by EDMA is mostly based on strings so, concepts like automation or interactive managing are directly supported by the system in a very easy way.

EDMA provides some features normally found in programming language, but it is not a programming language. Its a system midway from OO programming language to a component-based environment. So EDMA allows you to use OOP even on non-OO programming language or at least that is its aim.

Additionally, EDMA provides facilities to build evolvable software. Plug-in based application becomes trivial when using EDMA. Applications can be directly updated in a modular way (just install the new components required by the new version), even at run-time.