Ya Pivot is cool. Though I have not used it till now as I am less into Java now a days, I liked it, well even considering to use it to create a small visual language. The samples demonstrated are great. We can use it as that is also an apache project and I would really love to see it load a really big PDF with Images :).
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:05 PM, nisen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
