Re: SwixML

From: Adrian Wiesmann (awiesman..omap.org)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 03:04:49 EST

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    Hello Michael

    > > Does anyone have any thoughts on SwixML? I'm considering using it to
    > > make a Cayenne-based application/tool.

    I looked into SwixML and other similar libraries some time ago. Back then
    I was looking for a library with which I could have some level of
    abstraction where the same UI description file could be used to render
    Swing, HTTP and PDF/Excel/Whatever.

    What I did not like with the most libraries I was evaluating was that the
    binding was more of a hassle than I liked. XUL was too complex, others
    included scripting which we did not like in our project.

    So in our project we then finally decided to create our own engine. Some
    very early introduction can be found on this site:

    http://somap.wiki.sourceforge.net/design_sobfv2_gozer

    With Gozer it is possible to have 1 XML file containing the layout and
    binding information and render this to Apache Wicket (http), Swing, FOP
    and Excel.

    To connect Gozer with Cayenne we had to write some extensions to Cayenne
    (named Jalapeņo). These are DataContainer, DataTable, DataRow and
    DataRowKey.

    If you are interested in some more details, please drop me a note.

    Cheers,
    Adrian



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