Take a look at: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bren/JSX/
Mark Collette
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Cem Karan wrote:
> The recent thread of XML to GUI questioning has got me wondering. Is
> there an XML based GUI definition project out there somewhere? I've
> been thinking about hacking together something like XWindows, but in
> java so that I can control programs remotely. I know that I'm
> reinventing the wheel here, but the reason is that not everyone has an
> XWindows implementation on their platform (All UN*Xs do, Mac and Windows
> have something pretty good, or at least, close enough, but what about
> BeOS and others?) and I figured java would be a good start. However,
> even that isn't all that open as you still need a JVM to be able to use
> such code. A better approach would be something like XML Protocol and a
> decent DTD/Schema that described what is supposed to happen. I know
> that that would be replicating what is going on in XWindows, but my
> thought was that the most minimal DTD definition would only include what
> a pixel is, and the ability to communicate certain input device's events
> (keyboards, mice as well as everyone has them these days). Higher level
> DTDs would support more abstract constructs such as windows, which would
> allow you to reduce the bandwidth needed to communicate, etc. That way
> you can hack together a REALLY basic implementation of the spec quickly
> on just about any platform.
>
> I haven't heard of such a project having been started, but that doesn't
> mean it isn't going on somewhere. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
>
> Cem
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