Object Oriented Application Programming Environments :

In addition to the advantages and benefits offerred by OO Application Frameworks, OO Application programming environments:

1. allow users to easily bring together these numerous applications and have them work to gether as a cohesive whole.
2. eliminates the unproductive time invested in hacking, costumizing, compiling , linking and debugging steps
3. allow users to write the instructions in a domain specific language which the user is already well conversed in

Visual Programming Environments (VPEs):

In addition to the advantages and benefits offerred by OO Application Programming Environments mentioned above, the VPEs provide another layer of user convenience

1. Visual programming environments provide graphical or iconic elements which can be interactively manipulated according to some specific spatial grammar for program construction.

Some example links of Programming Environments (NOT necessarily Object Oriented but Successful):

1. Root System (Strict OOF)
2. Denzo - for Xray Crystal Structure Image Processing
3. Gnuplot
4. Mathematica
5. Matlab

Some example links of VPEs:

1. VisiQuest (Commercial)
2. TiViPE
3. Fabrik