Re: Matisse: using TableModelEditor in data-aware (real) applications

lol already working on it and yes Swing is within the
API  check out:
http://swinglabs.dev.java.net

JDNC used to be the API you are talking about, and it
could be defined in markup.  It is being abandoned in
favor of a new JSR see:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=296

Wade

--- Witold Szczerba <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am writing simple GUI application with JPA. Great
> thing is that
> Toplink and Derby are included in NB5.5 - everything
> you need is right
> there out of the box :)
> 
> In my data frame, there is JTable showing records
> from database. There
> is nice table editor in Matisse, you can define
> columns, but it seems
> useless, because I have to override data model
> anyway - my table is
> loaded with data received from entity manager.
> 
> Is there any way I could visually define my table
> columns and use this
> after replacing data model? Now I have just blank
> rectangle because I
> have to use my custom table model... it does not
> seem to be the proper
> way of using visual editor :(
> 
> -josh
> 
> p.s.
> I think in the near future Swing should be replaced
> by some other API
> for creating desktop applications. I think this new
> library/framework
> could use Swing internally but it might be much much
> more declarative
> (annotations!). Defining things like table columns,
> data sources and
> binding could be finally resolved under one umbrella
> :)
>