[xul-announce] Scripting languages in XML UI CDATA ; Reference Applications

[Philippe A.]

Hello everybody,1) N. Barbosa has extended Thinlet to add BSH (beanShell) scripting inside the XUL document with CDATA.CDATA is the approach natively implemented within xWidglets and XAML (although I have doubts about XAML interpreting CDATA on the fly ).The objective of CDATA is to extend script language from _javascript_
 toward java like languages, and eventually Java itself (or, let’s face it, C#). Well, it’s as if Thinlet was evolving toward… xWidglets  ;-)  (see http://xwidglets.secretgate.com/en/ )As far as XUL is concernerd, Will it support CDATA ? Did anyone else already think about that or find CDATA might be useful in XUL?2) Seeing all those XML UI now available, and more generally all those new generation rich client, may be what we all need is to design “reference applications” to really compare those technologies, and to implement real life business cases . For example, I would suggest :- an intranet
 banking application (may be like in Sun J2EE 1.4 tutorial)- a  scientific application (data visualisation with SVG and various calculus)- a trading application - a game  We could also stated where each UI is best suited :- real time / embedded app- front/middle office app- internet app (“home office”) Has anyone already designed the same "business demo app" with various XML UI technos ?(XUL”s”, SwixML, XAML”s”, xWidglets, Thinlet, Flash, GTK, Qt, Jazilla, Droplet, Bambookit, and others) regards, Philippe Aubourg[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Today's Topics:

1. Macromedia Launches Flex 1.0 With $12k Price Tag (Gerald Bauer)
2. Scriptable Thinlet: Script Thinlets Using Beanshell (bsh) (Gerald Bauer)
And I've created a ScriptableThinlet class that
extends Thinlet and does all the stuff, that is,
register named components as bsh variables, and call
scripts when need. The only limitation is that you
cannot use the 'this' reference inside scripts to
refer to the enclosing component.

Full story @
http://perso.club-internet.fr/sjobic/thinlet

- Gerald

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