Re: RE: Swixml and SAX, Jelly - Final Word ?

Fair enough. I am happy to help with the plugin engine
area if you choose to go that route, whether you use
my genpluginengine, or you want something a little
simpler  yet similar. I'll keep watch on the emails,
let me know when you want to go that route, or Warner
can let me know on our list.


--- Wolf Paulus <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I could, I would like to pause the Sax, Pull,
> etc. discussion for a 
> while. I think everyone interested has had a chance
> to voice an 
> opinion.
> Everyone has his reasons for using Swixml (or any
> other XUL library) 
> and I really do welcome all your suggestions and
> concerns.
> 
> That said, only a few experienced GUI developers
> have created 
> reasonably sized Java application using Swixml, some
> of them are listed 
> in the Acknowledgment on the Swixml.org Web site and
> obviously, 
> opinions from those member are considered a little
> more ;-)
> 
> If the XML descriptor you are using is one MB or
> more - yours truly 
> hadn't you in mind when creating Swixml.
> If you deploy on a platform where Swixml / Swing is
> terribly slow - 
> xmlpull won't help you much and you are better of
> replacing Swing 
> altogether (with Thinlet for instance).
> However, like I have said before, I'm working in the
> embedded space and 
> therefore ALWAYS consider resource limitations.
> 
> The next Swixml update will have the long awaited
> and much improve 
> layout  support.
> Following that, a re-factoring of parser and engine
> will enable SWT. 
> (Again - Swixml is going to support SWT)
> Extending Swixml (call it plug-in architecture if
> you'd like) is going 
> to enable the pre-fill Comboboxes and Tables with
> data through the XML 
> descriptor.
> 
> That's what's in the pipeline and the xml-pull and
> sax discussion are 
> probably not going to change this.
> I'm very sorry if you find that disappointing.
> However, Swixml is 
> carefully being developed over more than a year now
> and even after 
> moving the source into a CVS things are probably not
> going to change 
> all that much. (Again - Swixml is going to be moved
> into a CVS - I'm 
> just not to sure about java.net anymore).
> 
> 	Wolf Paulus
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