Authors: Paul G. Crismer and others. * Offer developers simple and effective frameworks in Eiffel : persistence, user interaction, report generation, communication. * Promote the Eiffel-way of development * Use BON and complement it by other methods where needed. Focus on quality, robustness. Use assertions "as well as possible". * Provide/gather tools, methods or best practices that help developers focus on application requirements, not technical details. * Reuse or extend existing Open Source libraries. * Portability : Eiffel compilers (ESI, SE, VE), Platforms (*nix,Win32)