XSWT - XML UI Language Toolkit For Eclipse/SWT - Project Site Now Live

Hello,

  The XSWT projects that lets you use XML to create
Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) UIs now sports
its own project site.

   Dave Orme - the XSWT project lead/maintainer -
writes:

   I wanted to drop you guys a brief note to say that
the XSWT part of Sweet is alive, very well, and has a
small but active developer community over at
http://xswt.sourceforge.net.  If you're interested,
you might want to come join the xswt-developer mailing
list so you can keep up on what's going on.  


   What is XSWT?

   XSWT describes SWT screen layouts using XML in a
way that provides the following benefits:

    * Approximately 33% reduction in code size over
using hand-coded Java. This number comes from
comparisons of actual SWT code from Eclipse with
hand-coded XSWT replications.

    * A more readable and maintainable description of
SWT layouts.

    * 1:1 mapping between XSWT elements and Java code.
If you understand the XSWT rules, all you need to code
it is in the SWT JavaDoc.

  In addition, XSWT provides the following features:

    * An Eclipse plug-in providing everything you need
to start coding XSWT: an XML editor, a File/New
wizard, and an XSWT preview view.

    * A small XSWT program loader that can be embedded
in your applications to load your XSWT-based screens.

    * An XSWT to Java compiler so you can compile XSWT
source code to Java source code. Have your cake and
eat it too. Enjoy the best of the XSWT and Java worlds
at the same time!  


   More @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/xswt and
http://xswt.sourceforge.net

   
  If anyone tries out XSWT, let us know how it goes
and what you think.

    - Gerald

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Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 -
http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
XUL Alliance - http://xulalliance.org
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org  


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