Hello, allow me to highlight the blog story by Orcale developer Brian Duff (who works on extending JDeveloper to support a "standard" plug-in architecture) titled "Why XAML is going to kick Swing (and SWT's) ass".
Brian writes: Mozilla has XUL, Longhorn will have XAML. Both are XML based descriptions of a rich client's application user interface. What does Java have? ... Now think how different this would all be if Java had a standard XML-based UI description language like Longhorn and the Mozilla platform. You could genuinely write an extension once and have it work in NetBeans or Eclipse without changing a single thing. It's not that there are no XML-based UI description languages for Java. In fact there are several: XUI and Luxor seem to be the biggest. Most of these are open source projects with various levels of support for different UI toolkits and complexity. But what Java really needs is a standard XML-based UI description language defined by the Java community process and actually distributed with the Java platform itself. Full story @ http://www.orablogs.com/duffblog/archives/000224.html What's your take on it? Do you long for a standard XML UI language for Java that bridges the gap between Netbeans/Swing (Sun/Oracle) and Eclipse/SWT (IBM)? Do you think it's good idea to use Sun's Java "Community" Process to standardize a XML UI description language that's not bound to Java? - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
