Many frameworks focus on event driven notifications centered around Actors (DQMH, AF, etc) as the dynamic event source. The Data Librarian, a scalar data storage re-use library inverts the paradigm, instead of caring about the source of the data, it allows modules to only care about the data itself.
Started with LabVIEW 5.0 in 1998
CLD in 2003
CLA in 2005
CPI