| Start of a data binding framework released--help requested [message #608881] |
Thu, 30 June 2005 17:46 |
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All,
The VE team yesterday released the start of a data binding framework
into CVS.
We believe that this framework belongs in VE because the framework is
architected in a way that we can support both Swing and SWT data binding
from the same code base, consistent with our charter. We also can bind
controls to any back-end--from plain old Java objects to EJB3 or Db4o
(http://www.db4o.com) [full disclosure, I work for db4objects, the
leading open-source object database company].
Currently this framework implements binding between plain old Java
objects and an SWT Text control, along with data validation based on
regular expressions, Java code, or just the data type of the Java
property being edited. Stubs are in the code showing how it can easily
be extended to support editing using any SWT control and any data back-end.
The VE team currently does not have plans to provide tooling support for
this library, but we had it, so we thought we'd release it. :-) Since
we don't have data binding in any of the VE plan documents yet, please
consider this released on an unofficial basis only for now. Of course,
we would love to see what the community could come up in terms of
completing it and adding tooling support, and we would support the
community in any efforts to do so.
You can check out the new library (called Sweet) from CVS:
Host: dev.eclipse.org
Repository: /home/tools/
Package: org.eclipse.ve.sweet
The class org.eclipse.ve.sweet.test.TestSweet is a simple tutorial
showing how to use most of the framework's features.
Best regards,
Dave Orme
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Visual Editor Project lead
http://www.db4o.com -- The Open-source Java Object Database
http://xswt.sf.net -- XML-based SWT page description language
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