hello,
why not just having a abstraction layer that exposes a XML file which contains an _abstract_ definition of of a GUI. see below illustration ...
----- \
| | \
| |___\
| |
| XML |
|document|
|________|
^
|
|
------------------
| XML Render Kit |
------------------
|
--------------------
| Management Layer |
--------------------... at the time i do not care whether the management layer includes EJB interfaces etc.
the XML document could look like something shown in the below code fragment:
--------8<-----------8<----------8<---------8<---------
<window id="1">
<button id="2" class="FooBar" type="submit">
<label>Hello</label>
</button>
</window>
-------->8----------->8---------->8--------->8---------using XSLT this could be transformed for example into the following JSF (Java Server Faces) GUI element:
--------8<-----------8<----------8<---------8<--------- <jsf:command_button class="class" type="submit|reset" id="2"> <jsf:label>Label</jsf:label> </jsf:command_button> -------->8----------->8---------->8--------->8---------
but beside that you can produces pure JSP, SWING GUIs, WAP GUIs or even speech output ...
you just have to use the exposed XML document as a GUI definition.
what i want to say with the above stuff, is that i wouldn't worry about whether to code a JSP, Servlet, Swing etc. GUI first, if you go with the XML thing you can produce almost any GUI.
OXF (recently mentioned @ theserverside.com) for example offeres a free XMLRenderKit that does something similar as mentioned above (see attached picture).
-> http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/doc/integration-jsf
but there are other projects that are using the above XML abstraction mechanism.
Wings: -> http://sourceforge.net/project/j-wings/ http://wings.mercatis.de/tiki-index.php
Scope: -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scope/ http://scope.sourceforge.net/
do you get the idea:
regards
daniel s. haischt --
Tim Urberg wrote:
I think we should use a web interface rather than Swing or SWT for the UI, what does everyone else think?
Tim
--- Gary Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Swing or SWT?
----- Original Message ----- From: Felipe Oliveira To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: WebServices & UI team
i would definetely be interested in the UI...let me know how it involves.
Rahul wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'd like to contribute for Web Services and UI (admin console) but
haven't come across any threads discussing same. Any clues if there's been anything already initiated on same ?
cheers,
Rahul
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