Hi todd, Is it possible we create a simple plugin system base Pivot ?I think the WTKX is a good lib for create a plugins system。 Maybe OSGi is need, we can choose Apache Felix .
2010/2/26 nisen <[email protected]>: > @Mel > I know Pivot and write a introduce in Chinese then publish it in > http://nisen.javaeye.com。 > > It's another GUI API in addition to SWT 、 Swing、JavaFX, base of Swing > or JavaME(MIDP)。It's another RCP frame in addition to Eclipse RCP. > It's helpful for me to study it,but not high priority。If you use pivot > you'd better study > Swing。I teach student Swing,introduce Pivot after they are familiar with > Swing. > > I choose Pivot for this project after a prototyping。 > > > > > > > > 2010/2/26 Martinez, Mel - 1004 - MITLL <[email protected]>: >> Pivot is cool. >> >> For those unfamiliar, aside from being a very nice widget library, Pivot >> follows a 'XUL' style of development model. That is, you declaratively >> define your UI with an xml markup language (WTKX) and then you just feed >> that document to a renderer, which creates the Java object hierarchy based >> on the document. So long as the object classes are visible to the renderer, >> it can create them. The primary focus here is for UI objects, but in >> reality most any simple Java object graph can be described and generated >> this way. The same xml markup can be used to deploy an application into >> different contexts (web, desktop, mobile device) simply by having different >> rendered implementations appropriate to the context. >> >> I don't want to dictate what the exact development model should be since >> others will probably kick this off. But Pivot is very easy to get an >> application started and has a very clean development and deployment 'story'. >> >> >> Plus it is generally a good thing to leverage other Apache projects. See >> >> http://pivot.apache.org/index.html >> >> and: >> >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-pivottut/index.html >> >> >> for more info. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Todd Volkert [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:29 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [idea] PdfReader In Google Summer of Code 2010 >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm brand new to this list and joining late in the discussion, but am I to >> understand that there has been some struggle with the choice of UI layer for >> the proposed application? If that's still up for debate, then I'd like to >> suggest that you look at Apache Pivot. I'm on the PMC for Pivot, and I >> think this could be a good opportunity for our two projects to jointly >> benefit. From what I've read on the mail archives, it sounds like this app >> would be very cool, and over at Pivot, we're looking for a cool app to >> showcase what our platform can do from a UI perspective in order to foster >> adoption of the platform. >> >> Thoughts? >> -T >> > > > > -- > nisen(English Name)/倪森(Chinese Name) > Blog: http://nisen.javaeye.com > -- nisen(English Name)/倪森(Chinese Name) Blog: http://nisen.javaeye.com
