Just to be perfectly clear, I'm not Greg. He writes Pivot; I'm just some guy on the internet.
java programmer wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Thank you very much. I think so i will be using the complete Java source code > rather then > using WTKX files as you suggested. I will design the application on paper and > then start > coding, will surely be needing your help time to time. > > Many Thanks > Prithvi > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Clint Gilbert > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > From the perspective of someone who is fairly new to Pivot and writing a > decent-sized standalone app with it, I can say that Pivot's API is about > 10,000 times cleaner than the other choices available for Java. Pivot > is quite pleasant to use. > > A GUI builder would be nice, but the Pivot API and tutorials are good > enough that I haven't felt like I really needed one. I tried out SWT > and Swing on the same project. They were both much more verbose and > required so many fiddly settings that a GUI builder was a necessity; > with Pivot it's a nice-to-have at best. > > I don't use WTKX as I have a general bias against coding apps in XML - > there are too many magic strings to line up without typos, and an IDE > can't help you refactor - so all my experience is with coding UIs in Java. > > If you need to give a standalone Java app a nice UI with little fuss, I > recommend Pivot wholeheartedly. The fact that an app can be deployed as > an applet with no code changes is a nice bonus. > > java programmer wrote: >> Hello, >> > >> 2- I am seeing that, Pivot is made using eclipse. Mostly what i am noticing >> for every component i need to write the code by hand. There is no >> drag and support for components like Swing. Even to the extend i can't use >> some xml editor to find out what properties a particular element is >> having. Is there a solution to this problem? Any DTD available? >> >> 3- One thing which might be needed in Pivot might be the validation support. >> Is pivot providing some validation framework like struts do? If not, >> can we use some apache validations API inside the pivot application to >> perform the validations? >> >> 4- Is it able to integrate with Spring and Hibernate? >> >> 5- Do every-time if we have to use it inside the web-application, we have to >> expose it as an applet? >> >> 6- What is the learning curve for Apache Pivot? How many days it will >> require to fully understand the WTKX and start coding in it efficiently? >> >> I am looking forward to know this information. >> >> Best Regards, >> Prithvi Sehgal >> > >
