William Louth wrote:
> I do recall the Swing team working on an XML serialization format for IDE's.
> Nothing has come out of it yet.
There is an IBM alphaworks project called Bean Markup Language with we use for
building our client user interface. I believe BML is now part of the open source
Bean Scripting Framework. We http to retrieve the BML files there by getting the
advantage of loading our UI from the server without having to serialize.
>
>
> By the way it must be hard to visual the form in the xml file. Do you have
> tool plugins to serialize and deserialize the form into some xml format. I
> think you might be better off just creating the frames (using a IDE) and
> using a deployment mechanism similar to JavaWebStart than going through all
> of this.
I gave up on IDE's a while ago. I found I spent as much time dealing with
limitations and bugs in the visual interface builders as it took to build the UI
in code and then revise and revise. I know, JBuilder has improved. I should take
another look, but frankly we now have a large library of parameterized BML files
and java beans which makes it very easy to build new UI.
--Victor
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