Re: Smart Client using Swixml
masukomi <[email protected]>
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XUL is pretty much a catch all term for anything that converts XML into GUI. It stands for XML User-Interface Language. I think Mozilla coined the term for their XUL implementation but it is applied to other toolkits like SwiXml. SwiXml does NOT have anything to do with Mozilla. SwiXml does conform to a standard schema but it's the SwiXml schema. HTML to XML for SwiXml can be done with XSLT if the original HTML is actually XHTML. If it isn't there are a few tools available to convert standard HTML to XHTML. You can bind custom objects to tags with custom attributes in SwiXml if you want. It's not that hard. Wolf is still working on Franklin the visual interface for building SwiXml apps but it has not been released. http://www.carlsbadcubes.com/franklin/ I have experiences making a number of smart clients with SwiXml and am available for on or off site training, consulting, and mentoring in SwiXml. I'm also familiar with XSLT and dynamically generating Swing guis with user or instance specific elements on the fly by combining SwiXml and Velocity or other template engines. Please call me at 617-308-9130 or see http://www.masukomi.org for details. -Kate Rhodes Open source consultant & Java developer http://www.masukomi.org On Jun 25, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Vineet Banga wrote: > Hi > I am a part of the team, looking to migrate our companies web client > to smart client. To accomplish this we are looking at a bunch of new > technologies and libraries. I have a few questions regarding Swixml > and would really appreciate your feedback. > 1. Does SwiXML follow the XUL, propsed by Mozilla or any other sort of > standard XML schema. I am aware XUL is still not a W3C standard. Just > want to know is there any specific XML schema, which Swixml is using. > > 2. Is there any proposal/exisiting tools to transform HTML to XUL (XML > used by Swixml). > > 3. Are there any ideas about extending XUL to cover data bindings(is > JDNC in picture) and also may be a metadata driven actions framework? > > 4. Any thoughts on building a tool/visual designer to generate XUL? > > Please share if you have opnions/experiences regarding smart client > technologies. Currently I am looking at Swing/WebStart kind of a > solution. > > Thanks for your time. > Vineet > > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > [email protected] > http://carlsbadcubes.com/mailman/listinfo/forum_carlsbadcubes.com > > _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://carlsbadcubes.com/mailman/listinfo/forum_carlsbadcubes.com