Naked Objects Version 1.0 Released
Rober Matthews writes "Naked Objects is an open-source Java-based framework that makes it easy to develop business systems from 'naked objects' - behaviourally complete business objects that are exposed directly to the user. By simply writing Java classes that represent the business entities, and including only business behaviour, this framework provides a unique user interface that allows the user to directly manipulate the objects, and a mechanism to automatically persist them. See nakedobjects.org for details."
There was a good article about Naked Objects in java pro last April. It's an interesting idea I think, maybe not for final-products but allowing end-users to see something early on so they can get a better idea as to what they really need in the end product (maybe feature x isn't really that important).