"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

The Molecule Application Framework is an application framework for building quickly enterprise systems. The general idea behind the Molecule is to create an application framework embodying the principles of Agile Architecture.

As such it should help people develop quickly reliable enterprise applications, without sacrificing quality. At the same time it should support easy maintainability and encourage change, to be easily adaptable to customer feedback and requirements.

The framework will not try to be a "jack of all trades", by including all kinds of existing open source components and frameworks (like Spring, etc.). Instead it will try to define a core component framework, that does only few things, but those things extremely well. Itself will be build to adhere to the Agile values, embraced by its creators and hopefully also by its users.

Nevertheless the Molecule will not try to re-invent the wheel, but will incorporate the most lightweight and powerful open source projects, where available.