Is it worth investigating Jelly Swing ? Is this project still alive ?
I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get the
binaries / source working as per the tutorial. "maven demo:swing" does not work. I am wondering if it
is worthwhile spending any more time on Jelly Swing.
Are there better alternatives to this ?
Alpana,
Jelly is definitely alive just as jelly-swing.
The bug in the documentation is simple: you need to be in <JELLY_HOME>/jelly-tags/swing to invoke "maven demo:swing",it has nothing to do with maven as far as I know.
Jelly is alive in the sense that many questions come around, some small fixes are applied...
If you want to see examples of development of jelly-swing, have a look at the sourceforge project XWing where Jelly-swing is used as layout language for a collection of XML-based Swing components.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xwing
There's no distribution or website yet though it could all be made soon, compilation works with maven.
The jelly-versions that you should use in general is the cvs version, really... maven builds fine for the core and several of the taglibs (including swing). For some others, an external download is required (e.g. JMS, servlets...).
You might have a hope on the jakarta nightly builds, haven't checked this recently.
The big problem in jelly currently is that James Strachan, probably the most active father of Jelly, has dropped it.
Some comitters are around but a person is missing to coordinate it all.
If you have a patch, posting them to this list or submitting a jira issue certainly will help someone who will consider uploading it.
This has happened right after refactoring out the taglibs as subprojects... hence the documentation bugs.
Maybe a first step towards a beta would be to rehaul the documentation completely at least covering:
- corrections for taglibs (the same apply for the xml, unit, and swt pages)
- precise URLs for each dependencies so that everyone can build the whole jelly module (I have an impression that no-one has done it since quite long).
Henry Yandell wrote:
I would suspect a release towards the start of next year, but that's a complete finger in the air guess. I don't think anyone's going to be cleaning it up very soon, but I think that when Maven releases 1.0, it will give Jelly the push to move forward.
I would guess it might happen sooner even for a few other betas.
The trouble remains on the jexl side where I haven't seen lots of activity either (see the recent posts on empty and size).
In the jexl world, also a creation of James Strachan, it is not clear yet wether documentation is missing or there is a few ill-designed things but there are clearly misunderstood pieces (like the size function).
Paul
PS: jelly-swing is stuck at another corner: tag-documentation. Tag documentation was done using XDoclet for most other tag-libraries. For jelly-swing, however, this doesn't really work because converters need to be better managed... (so as to map attributes to setters). An issue is opened since long in Jira on that.
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