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Hello Chuck,
Hi Frank, thanks for the feedback.
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<Forum@carlsbadcubes.com> schrieb am 13.01.05 07:38:18:
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Q3) How mature and stable is it? Can I expect what's there to work
today and even more importantly can I expect to be able to carry what I
implement today forward without significant rework?
Hm, the syntax of swixml heavily relies on reflection for
attribute names and this would'nt change even on major
redesigns... I used swixml in a some applications (in fact,
every java program with a GUI I created the last 1.5
years) and did not encounter problems regarding maturity
or stability...
Let me clarify. I'm asking about the maturity of the SwiXML API and
XML DTD/Schema. If I were to use version 1.X to build a system what
impact will version 2.X, which I've seen some discussion of in this
forum, have on my system? Can I expect the API to be stable or are
their planned reworks for 2.0? What about the XML?
I thought of a Q6) Are there any plans to give the option of avoiding
the JDOM dependency and instead use javax.xml's DOM API?
How about for Mac support specifically?
What do you mean by "specifically"? Swixml GUIs are able to use
Program menu. In swixmls CVS is a slightly enhanced version for
that I added recently.
I was asking how mature, stable and robust the Mac support is?
My first impression, when seeing Mac specific references, was that
initially SwiXML couldn's support Macs but required Mac specific code
to function at all. With a little more investigation I now see that
the Mac stuff appears to be a Mac specific extension. I'm assuming
that the core functionality of SwiXML works on the Mac without the
extensions, right?
Q5) How well does it support GUI glue functionality? ... Can object A reference object B
in the XML?
This is not a builitin facility in swixml. You may try to solve this through
custom converters, but I'm not sure whether this is possible...
Unfortunate, it would be a powerful feature.
How does SwiXML support things like radio button groups without such a
utility?
Thanks again,
-- ced
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Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.
