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"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> writes:

> Dale King wrote:
>
>> Is there any really good XML API for creating Swing UI's?
>
> I can't help with suggestions for what already exists, but the thought strikes
> me: how hard would it be to do yourself ?   Since (as I understand it) you are
> not looking for any kind of abstraction away from Swing, but rather the ability
> to specify Swing GUIs in XML instead of boilerplate Java code, it seems that a
> table-driven approach would be quite powerful.  Your hand-written Java code
> (for interpreting the XML) would be table driven, mapping XML tags/attributes
> into Swing constructions via either reflection or some sort of factory; and the
> tables would be generated (off-line) by reflection on the Swing classes.
>
> YAGNI, of course, is your friend in any such project ;-)
>
>     -- chris


<SWAGmode> Doesn't JGoodies use XML to store its UI information?  </SWAGmode>

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Are there any good Java X "Dale King" <dale.king@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
  Re: Are there any good Ja "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
    Re: Are there any good Ja "david" <david@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
      Re: Are there any good Ja "Dale King" <dale.king@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
    Re: Are there any good Ja "Dale King" <dale.king@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
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