Thanks, Adrian. I'll take a look at it sometime this weekend. For my own uses, though, I really only care about Swing. (Well, Swing is my main consideration -- I want a cross-platform GUI even though I'm a Cocoa guy, so I have to use Swing or make it web-based somehow.) I'm wanting to re-write/clone DBEdit (from WebObjects/OpenStep) into a Cayenne application (kind of like Cayenne Modeler). I liked the idea that SwixML (and a few of the others, I suppose) stored the UI description outside of the Java code (more like a Cocoa .nib file).
/dev/mrg On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Adrian Wiesmann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Jalapeño). These are DataContainer, DataTable, DataRow and > DataRowKey. > > If you are interested in some more details, please drop me a note. > > Cheers, > Adrian >
