Alternative Corner: Sun Launches Luxor-Like Open Source Project (JDNC)

Hello,

  It looks like using XML to build UIs is going
mainstream now. Sun just unveiled the long promised
Java Desktop Network Components (JDNC) project.

  Amy Fowler who leads Sun's new Java Swing XUL
project writes in the blog story titled "The JDNC
project debuts":

  A new technology called Java Desktop Network
Components (JDNC) takes on the goal of simplifying
development of data-centric Java desktop clients by
providing shortcuts in the form of high level Swing
components and an optional XUL language. Taking
advantage of the open source boon, we're launching
this as a javadesktop.org project, from which we can
involve you not only in trying the stuff out, but in
shaping and coding it directly. The JDNC project is a
place where we can explore solutions and tune them
long before they get baked into a standard. It is
still in the rough early stage, so your impact could
be significant.

  More @ http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1478
  and https://jdnc.dev.java.net

  If anyone is interested in JDNC I invite you to join
the new JDNC Developers Group. See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jdnc for details.

  - Gerald

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Gerald Bauer

XUL Alliance | http://xul.sourceforge.net
United XAML | http://xaml.sourceforge.net


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