Is Swixml a rich (or smart) client?
"karim virgil " <[email protected]>
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Hi everybody, I post this message because I would like to have some advices from the Swixml communauty. Currently, I'm doing some research on the rich (smart) client domain because I'll like to develop an application that can be deployed and updated easily but more user-friendly than the HTML. Naturally, I found the Mozilla + XUL (and javascript) solution very attractive because it meets my needs completely. There is only one drawback : This solution obliges the user to use Mozilla but I can't impose this constraint to him. So, I was looking for another solution and I found this Internet Site : http://xul.sourceforge.net/counter.html As far as I'm concerned, I think that swixml won this challenge because the esthetics of the interface is pleasant and this in few lines of code. After, I found the Web journal of Wolf Paulus (http://www.carlsbadcubes.com/blog/index.html) where it's written that Mr Galbraith said at the San Diego Software Symposium that he thought SwixML is the most mature XUL/Swing offering. After doing some research on how Swixml works, I found that the xml file that describe the UI is interpreted by the SwingEngine initialised in a .java file and launched by a JVM. Can we consider that Swixml really acts like a rich client? In other words, is swixml a rich client or "only" a way to describe swing interface in xml ? What are the advantages to create an UI using XML rather than a hard coded one? What I think is that swixml can't be considered as a smart client alone but It really makes the deal if it's combined to Java Web Start (so Java Web Start + swixml.jar == mozilla browser behaviour with XUL). Maybe, I'm wrong and I'll be very happy to read the opinion of the swixml communauty about this post. I hope that this message will not be perceived as a criticism of swixml because it is absolutely not my intention. I only wish to have your opinion on the interest to use swixml whereas I can also create a rich client by using swing directly and deploy it with Java Web Start. thank you ps:sorry if my english isn't perfect ;-) Plus simple, plus fiable, plus rapide : découvrez le nouveau Caramail - http://www.caramail.lycos.fr _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://carlsbadcubes.com/mailman/listinfo/forum_carlsbadcubes.com