SwiXAT - Swing-XML Authoring Tool v.0.4.5 released

List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:16:34 +0200
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Hi all,
I'm glad to announce that the version 0.4.5 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.

In this new version the event's handling has been enhanced by 
introducing the possibility to almost handle any event (MouseEvents, 
KeyEvents, FocusEvents, PropertyChangeEvents, etc...).
Added the support for FileFilters, in order to determine the file 
extensions shown by a JFileChooser.
The optional TreeCellRenderer tag was added for JTrees, in order to 
determine the icon, text and tooltip text of each tree's node. Finally, 
the user's guide has been updated with the documentation about the new 
features.

You can read all the changes at 
http://www.swixat.org/docs/changes-report.html and download the last 
version from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=99002

Any comment and suggestion is welcome, of course.

Regards
Paolo Marrone