> There was
> someone who was very interested in supporting it as a project, but I
> haven't heard what came of that.
That was probably me. We started with DV on a project and very much
loved it. But we wanted a way to design whole forms and have some logic
in there. Unfortunately the current state of DV did only allow for
single tables (we extended this to some simple forms some time, but we
never went further).
We realised that we need something with which we could design not only
lists but whole frames. And we knew we'd need something for web apps as
well as for "native" java applications. So we designed and implemented
Gozer.
Gozer is something like a cheap Xul for Cayenne. It contains some Xul
concepts, but also some concepts from DV. Basically you design frames in
XML. That XML file contains layout and binding information. A renderer
then takes that definition and renders into the format you need.
Including the binding, events and everything. We have already
implemented a Swing, Wicket, PDF and Excel renderer (to different
extends). We are quite happy with what we have and would be more than
willing to walk interested parties through the concept/code. While Gozer
currently is part of our application, we always planned for using Gozer
as an external library so that others could use (and extend) it as well.
So ping me if you'd like to hear more.
Cheers,
Adrian
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