[OT] Re: A new paradigm of Struts development

[Erik Weber]

Vic, why we would want to continue to write apps for Internet Explorer 
and Netscape after discovering a technology like this is beyond me. My 
chips are in with you. I have been pushing my web-app minded clients 
toward Swing all along, but technologies like Java Web Start and now 
JDNC are really going to strengthen my case.

I have a question for you. Sorry if the answer is obvious and I just 
haven't read enough.

I have invested a lot in writing custom UI classes, custom paint 
methods, custom UI defaults properties, etc., to get my Swing components 
looking the way I want (I'm sorry but, changing the background colors, 
and other easily-scriptable stuff, doesn't cure Swing's out-of-the-box 
ugliness). Also, I am amassing a collection of custom components, such 
as self-validating forms and custom JTextPane-based browsers.

In fact, one of my browsers builds layouts based on my own metalanguage 
(soon to be XML). It embeds diagrams with captions and draws arrows from 
the captions to the diagrams based on simple coordinates, etc. Seems 
like I was doing JDNC without even really knowing about JDNC. ;)

I do not intend to abandon my current set of GUI devices, but obviously 
I would like to leverage JDNC if it's worth it, not to mention provide 
compatibility. Will JDNC support my own look and feel (or pseudo look 
and feel)? Can it be easily modified to work with my custom components?

I'm not even sure if I should bring up the question of security. Suppose 
I have a custom file chooser. Will there be a sandbox concept like that 
of Applets?

Thanks,
Erik
Vic wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
What I want to see in the future for big apps is a DTD or xml schema 
that brings JSP code and XHTML mark-up under control. Something that 
is easily editable by my editor of choice, using syntax-highlighting 
to show me where my XHTML is up the swanny.


Just in case you missed my posts about a great Sun open source project 
JDNC that will be a part of J26 Standard Edition (Mustang), it does 
above, one of the reasons that I am "raving" about it, check it out:

http://javadesktop.org/jdnc/0_5/docs/tutorial/index.html
And I am using it w/ a lot of success. Right now I am just doing the 
"Swing" extensions, but will tie in UI via XML (and will add code to 
make it work w/ Hessian SoA, it's trivial binding).

My chips are behind JDNC.
.V
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