Re: Extend SwiXML to remove need for backing object

Actually, I needed the very same thing and created a solution a while 
back.  I created an pluggable interface to tell the swixml engine how to 
lookup actions.  My particularl implementation looked up the action via 
Swing.  I submitted a patch, but it never got any attention.  I could 
dig it up if you'd like, but it was against built 135 if I remember 
right.  As you noticed, there isn't any way to do this with swixml 
currently.

Don

Andy Depue wrote:

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>Hello,
>  I'm attempting to create a general GUI framework by combining SwiXML with 
>Spring (see http://www.springframework.org ).  I would like to perform this 
>integration without having to create a custom version of SwiXML, but I'm 
>finding it rather difficult.  Primarily, I am attempting to replace the 
>SwinEngine backing object (the user supplied "client" object that is the 
>recipient for controls and the provider of actions) with a Spring BeanFactory 
>instead.  However, SwiXML is "hardcoded" to use introspection for looking up 
>Actions.  In other words, the code that performs this functionality is 
>embedded within a private method in Parser (applyAttributes).  Moreover, even 
>if Parser could be extended, SwingEngine holds a private reference to the 
>Parser with no way for me to replace that private reference with my own 
>Parser instance.  My only option would be to overload the actual "render" and 
>"insert" methods in SwingEngine, but I feel like that would make my solution 
>too brittle (if a future version of SwiXML expanded the functionality of 
>these methods, my versions of them would become obsolete).  I would like to 
>extend SwiXML so that it looks up Actions via a "getBean" call on a Spring 
>BeanFactory instead of introspection against the client backing object.  Any 
>ideas?
>
>  Thanks,
>    Andy
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