Hello, DevX has published an article titled "XUL: The Gatekeeper to Higher-level Web UIs" by Laurence Moroney that asks: Why wait for XAML? XUL is available now, tightly integrated with the Mozilla browsers and provides a full framework for building desktop or Web applications.
Laurence writes: For almost a year now Microsoft has been touting XAML, its XML Application Markup Language, as being a significant disruptive technology changing how you will develop your applications, and in particular the presentation layer for .NET applications. But thanks to a juggling of internal resources, XAML, and its parent, Longhorn, have been pushed into the vague future with a constantly shifting release date sometime after 2006. However the underlying idea�the separation of user interface declaration and application service logic�is a good one and you don't have to wait for Longhorn and XAML to start developing with that paradigm today. Enter the Luxor XML UI Language Toolkit, or XUL for short. XUL is more than just the markup language to describe the user interface. It is also a lightweight Web server, a portal engine, a template engine, and a scripting interpreter. It was originally pioneered by Mozilla and is an integral part of the Mozilla browser. In this article you will build a desktop application in Java and XUL that consumes a public Web service to tell you the temperature at any location based on its ZIP code. You will also look into running XUL documents within the Mozilla browser. This is just the tip of the XUL iceberg, but hopefully enough to whet your appetite for more. Full story @ http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/21350 or http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/21350/1954?pf=true - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Thinlet Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinlet SwiXml Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swixml JDNC Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jdnc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
