SwiXAT - Swing-XML Authoring Tool - v.0.3.5 released

[email protected] Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:51:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.embedded.carlsbad-cubes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm glad to announce that the version 0.3.5 of SwiXAT - the Swing XML 
Authoring Tool - has been released.

You can download it at http://www.swixat.org and read a short tutorial 
at http://www.swixat.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Tutorial

SwiXAT is a Swing-based authoring tool for the quick and easy 
development of GUI Java applications. It implements a true MVC framework 
and uses SwiXML as the XUL engine (without any modification to its 
source code!), BeanShell (or Groovy) as a scripting language for the 
controller, and JXPath as the binding mechanism between the view and 
model. It provides a complete environment in which it is possible to 
almost write an entire Java Swing application without writing Java 
compiled code, maintaining however the power of any java-based 
application. The use of XPath makes it very simple to traverse the 
object tree of the application's business model.

Changes:
- The <Script> tag has been added to import a script directly within a view.
- The mechanism to show the view in response to a command was made dynamic.
- Now the developer can indicate relative paths for all the resources, 
in order to easily relocate the entire application.
- Some bugs about the context handling were fixed.
- The documentation has been improved and a complete tutorial has been 
added.

The project is at an early stage of development, hence any feedback is 
welcome.

Regards
Paolo Marrone