Luxor for J2ME

Salut Damien,

> I'm a belgian student at Liège university. It's my
> last school year and
> I have to do some project. I choose to write a xml
> gui builder for pda. 

  Great choice. I'm sure it will be a great learning
experience. Welcome to the future.

> I looked on the web for the tools already existing
> for this. I found
> Luxor to be the project I need, because it's
> powerfull, based on a
> standard file format and extensible. 
> 
> I would like to extends Luxor to generate simpler
> gui, based on awt.

As far as I know J2ME doesn't use AWT but a different
UI toolkit.

> The
> gui should be generated offline and then uploaded to
> the device.
> 
> I don't know if I should only restrain myself to
> J2ME or if I can use
> J2SE (it seems that pda supports J2SE).

  I suggest using the J2ME UI toolkit as Swing or AWT
are memory hogs and won't run on mobile phones any
time soon.

> If you have any ideas or advices, they are really
> welcome...

  I suggest instead of extending Luxor to rip it
apart, that is to say, build your own little XUL
engine from scratch reusing as much code as possible
from Luxor (using time-proven cut and paste) and don't
be afraid to throw away the stuff you don't need.

You might also wonna look into other available
open-source XUL/XML UI motors. I keep a link
collection at
http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net/post/links.html

For small XUL/XML UI engines you might wonna check out
Swix or Thinlets.

Once you have a prototype I'm happy to promote it at
"The Saturn Times" and upload/add it to the Luxor
contrib site at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64067
to pave your way to world fame.

  - Gerald



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