Hello, Jakob Wenzel has released Beryl 1.0 - a new open-source XUL toolkit in Java for Swing licensed under the GNU Lesser/Library General Public License (LGPL).
Jakob writes: The Beryl XML GUI library was written to ease the development of graphical user interfaces using Swing on Java. It lets you store user interfaces as XML markup. This will help you avoid unnecessary clutter in your source - Swing code mixed with application logic can become a troublesome and hard to read mess as the application size increases. The library comes with a visual component builder, which makes development a breeze. The most important features are: * It has a very easy syntax, makes designing a GUI as easy writing HTML * Effectively removes all Swing UI construction code from your program, resulting in a much more readable, maintainable and smaller codebase. * Comes with its own visual GUI builder (which, in turn, has been entirely written using the XML GUI) * Almost all of the Swing widgets are supported * Integrates with JavaHelp * Supports Drag'n'Drop with much less effort * Builtin internationalization * Uses caching for improved performance * Widgets are self-configuring with default values * Validators can be attached to widgets, common validators are supplied (Date, Number, Phone number, Email address ..) * Spacings are automatically set to conform with the Java Look And Feel Design Guidelines * Automatic "Group" layout for easy construction of simple dialogs * Embraces the MVC design pattern * Ready for J2EE client applications (For example you can automatically create a table row from a J2EE value object) * Adds several much-needed custom swing components: JWizard, JIconView, JConsole, JOutlookBar and JHorizontalSeparator This library is actively used for the development of internal software at a major German internet webspace provider ( http://www.1und1.com ). After extensive development, this is the first official release. Full story @ http://xmlgui.tigris.org - Gerald PS: If anyone has tried out Beryl, let us know what you think and how it compares to SwiXML, Luxor, XUI, Thinlet, and so on. Please post your comments to the xul-talk mailinglist. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
