Hello, > This is not an XUL application, but it is in the > same space, thus Gerald thought it would be good for > me to post to this list.
Thanks for introducing Thicky. Looks fantastic. > In short, like HTML it renders on the client side. > also like HTML it is served from some technology or > other from the server side (JSF, PHP, Velocity) > > The difference is each page is compiled by the > Groovy compler and instantiated in a frame, and > gives a *thick* client experience. You might consider using the term *rich* client experience. Thick somehow doesn't sound healthy. How about rebranding Thicky to Richie or Goldie or similar? Just a thought. Anyway, allow me to highlight some Thicky blog stories. Carlos Villela has written up a story titled "Thicky, and other Groovy things" that shows Thicky in action. Carlos writes: First and foremost, this is Paul Hammant's brainchild, so I was already expecting something brilliantly simple, yet still very useful, or very mind blowing, and it turns out Thicky is both: it's simple as a browser without all the HTML, and it's mind-blowing as making your markup executable on the client with Groovy. This thing definitely has a lot of potential, but allow me to think a bit more about it before I start pouring in my comments. For now, some screenshots, as a small contribution :) More @ http://jroller.com/page/cv/20040331#thicky_and_other_groovy_things Paul Hammant has written up a story titled "Thicky: like the web, but with a Groovy thick-client experience" that shades a light on the long history of Thicky. Paul writes: Thicky is the realisation of an idea that I had in 2001. As head of development at Digital Rum in London, I wanted developers to tackle something sexy after some serious hard work getting a product live. Given the core of the application was a bean layer delivering dynamic XML documents to a XSL tumbling servlet app (ultimate clients were WAP and Web), it seemed appropriate to see what we could do in the XML/XSL space that was page-oriented. What we came up with was... More @ http://paulhammant.com/blog//000218.html - Gerald PS: For a short all-in-one-HTML page intro to Groovy may I highlight my talk slides (40+) from last month's JUG Austria meeting titled "Groooooovy Babe: Jazzing Up Plain Old Java: Scripting Power for Java - Do More With Less (Lines of Code)" online @ http://viva.sourceforge.net/talk/jug-mar-2004/slides.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
