Russell, Impressive work you have done there. Looks really good and we will have a lot of catch up to do, to just get close to your documentation i.e.
However, beyond the basic concept of using XML for UI definitions, I don't see a lot of similarities. Don't get me wrong Russell, but readers of this list and many others have discussed this issue before: SWIXML is build from the ground up to be small, fast, and easy. SWIXML is focusing completely on javax.swing. Programmers who know Swing already can immediately start writing descriptors. No additional XML dialect has to be learned: Class names translate into tag names and method names into attribute names. SWIXML is faster since no additional layers had to be added on top of the Swing objects. SWIXML is smaller. Despite the fact that the SWIXML jar file is only about 35Kbyte in size, almost all of the infamous Swing objects are supported. SWIXML does Java Swing GUI generation and that is all. The dynamic behavior of the user interface, defining the application's business rules, has to be coded in Java. SWIXML is not a programming language and does not support variables, scripting, etc. This does not mean that tools/technologies like axualize, xulux, luxor, etc, are better or worse. All these tools have their place and most Java Developers are grateful to have a choice. -- Wolf Paulus C a r l s b a d C u b e s mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Russell White Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 6:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Forum] Join forces? Hello, I am the auther of a very similar tool, which you may find helpful. Please checkout: http://freshmeat.net/projects/axualize or: http://axualize.sf.net Let me know if you think there is any project synergy. I am using axualize to create huge GUIs and other applications. One big plus is that it incroporates a standard schema (JSR-57 long term bean persistance) and is not limited to any particular GUI library. I have used it for Swing, SWT, and Zaval LWT. Axualize also brings a very powerful form based application infrostructure. The threading and interface implentations are also quite helpful. It is cool to see another slick Java tool like SWIXml on the block. I hope we can join our efforts. Sincerely, Russ White __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://mars.lunarpages.com/mailman/listinfo/forum_carlsbadcubes.com
