| [ANN] XSWT Relaunched [message #60144] |
Wed, 15 September 2004 16:54 |
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Once upon a time, Chris McLaren invented XSWT, an XML-based UI
description language for SWT. It let you write SWT layouts with about
2/3 of the code required by native Java, plus due to its hierarchical
nature, it let you copy and paste parts of a layout much more sensibly
than Java could possibly hope to do.
But XSWT didn't really have a home. Several individuals downloaded it
from Bugzilla and used it for various purposes, but nobody really took
over ownership of the project.
Now XSWT has been relaunched as its own open-source project on SourceForge.
http://xswt.sf.net
There's a file release and an update site with the latest code there.
Here are some of the updated features:
- Reflection-based implementation works with current and future SWT controls
- All the previous nastiness with XML namespaces has been fixed
- There's an XSWT-to-Java compiler
- JFace support has been added
- Control construction and property setting is abstracted--this is one
step toward GUI builder support
I'm supporting the current code base in my spare time because the code
is too good to see die (and because I use it in various places). It
also would be really cool if someone could make XSWT work with VE. ;-)
Regards,
Dave
(PS: Although I'm VEP project lead here, XSWT is purely a personal
project, so please nobody interpret this as either an ASC or VEP
statement of direction.)
--
Dave Orme
Eclipse Visual Editor Project Lead
Advanced Systems Concepts' Chief Architect
http://www.swtworkbench.com
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