Re: [PATCH] Swixml - Extending DefaultFactory

Don,

I am working on quite a few changes to the guts of Swixml so
that multiple engines, including SWT and Swing can be used.

I will have the changes completed and tested within a week or so.

One of the major changes that I am working on is to dynamically 
register the
factories and converters via an file like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<swixml>
  <engine type="swing">
     <tag name="Applet" factory="javax.swing.JApplet" />
     <tag name="Button" factory="javax.swing.JButton" />
     <tag name="ButtonGroup" factory="javax.swing.ButtonGroup" />
     <tag name="HBox" factory="org.swixml.swing.XHBox" />
     <tag name="VBox" factory="org.swixml.swing.XVBox" />
     <tag name="Checkbox" factory="javax.swing.JCheckBox" />
     <tag name="CheckBoxMenuItem" 
factory="javax.swing.JCheckBoxMenuItem" />
     <tag name="ComboBox" factory="javax.swing.JComboBox" />
     <tag name="Component" factory="javax.swing.JComponent" />
     <tag name="DesktopPane" factory="javax.swing.JDesktopPane" />
     <tag name="Dialog" factory="org.swixml.swing.XDialog" />
     <tag name="EditorPane" factory="javax.swing.JEditorPane" />
     <tag name="FormattedTextField" 
factory="javax.swing.JFormattedTextField" />
     <tag name="Frame" factory="org.swixml.swing.JFrame.class);
     <tag name="Glue" factory="org.swixml.swing.XGlue" />
     <tag name="GridBagConstraints" 
factory="org.swixml.swing.XGridBagConstraints" />
     <tag name="InternalFrame" factory="javax.swing.JInternalFrame" />
     <tag name="Label" factory="javax.swing.JLabel" />
     <tag name="List" factory="javax.swing.JList" />
     <tag name="Menu" factory="javax.swing.JMenu" />
     <tag name="Menubar" factory="javax.swing.JMenuBar" />
     <tag name="Menuitem" factory="javax.swing.JMenuItem" />
     <tag name="Panel" factory="javax.swing.JPanel" />
     <tag name="PasswordField" factory="javax.swing.JPasswordField" />
     <tag name="PopupMenu" factory="javax.swing.JPopupMenu" />
     <tag name="ProgressBar" factory="javax.swing.JProgressBar" />
     <tag name="RadioButton" factory="javax.swing.JRadioButton" />
     <tag name="RadioButtonMenuItem" 
factory="javax.swing.JRadioButtonMenuItem" />
     <tag name="OptionPane" factory="javax.swing.JOptionPane" />
     <tag name="ScrollPane" factory="javax.swing.JScrollPane" />
     <tag name="Separator" factory="javax.swing.JSeparator" />
     <tag name="Slider" factory="javax.swing.JSlider" />
     <tag name="Spinner" factory="javax.swing.JSpinner" />
     <tag name="SplitPane" factory="org.swixml.swing.XSplitPane" />
     <tag name="TabbedPane" factory="org.swixml.swing.XTabbedPane" />
     <tag name="Table" factory="javax.swing.JTable" />
     <tag name="TableHeader" factory="javax.swing.JTableHeader" />
     <tag name="TextArea" factory="javax.swing.JTextArea" />
     <tag name="TextField" factory="javax.swing.JTextField" />
     <tag name="TextPane" factory="javax.swing.JTextPane" />
     <tag name="ToggleButton" factory="javax.swing.JToggleButton" />
     <tag name="Tree" factory="javax.swing.JTree" />
     <tag name="Toolbar" factory="javax.swing.JToolBar" />
     <converter class="Action.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.ActionConverter" />
     <converter class="Border.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.BorderConverter" />
     <converter class="Color.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.ColorConverter" />
     <converter class="Dimension.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.DimensionConverter" />
     <converter class="Font.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.FontConverter" />
     <converter class="Image.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.ImageConverter" />
     <converter class="Icon.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.ImageIconConverter" />
     <converter class="ImageIcon.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.ImageIconConverter" />
     <converter class="Insets.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.InsetsConverter" />
     <converter class="KeyStroke.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.KeyStrokeConverter" />
     <converter class="LayoutManager.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.LayoutConverter" />
     <converter class="Locale.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.LocaleConverter" />
     <converter class="Point.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.PointConverter" />
     <converter class="String.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.StringConverter" />
     <converter class="boolean.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.PrimitiveConverter" />
     <converter class="int.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.PrimitiveConverter" />
     <converter class="long.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.PrimitiveConverter" />
     <converter class="float.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.PrimitiveConverter" />
     <converter class="double.class" 
converterlib="org.swixml.swing.Converters.PrimitiveConverter" />
  </engine>
</swixml>

This should make it easier to register any tag and factory that you 
wish.

Sincerely,

Brian P Michael

PS.  Were you ever involved in a company called AlgoSol.


On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 03:49  PM, Don Brown wrote:

> I made several small changes to DefaultFactory to make it possible to
> extend; basically, I removed the final modifier from the class and
> template variable.
>
> Here's my use case:  I want my custom tags, and some swing tags, to be
> created by my inversion of control (IoC) framework (Spring -
> http://www.springframework.org).  This lets my plugins declare what
> resources they will need through JavaBean setters, and spring, at call
> time, will create the plugin and provide it with its resources.
>
> The best way I could see to accomplish this was to extend 
> DefaultFactory
> and override its newInstance() method, leaving all the other method
> implementation to DefaultFactory.  Unfortunately, I discovered
> DefaultFactory and the key template variable are declared final.  I 
> think
> there is value in making it possible to extend DefaultFactory for use
> cases such as mine.
>
> My modified DefaultFactory:
> http://www.twdata.org/dakine/DefaultFactory.java
>
> Comments?
>
> Don
>
>
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Sincerely,

Brian P Michael
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