Hello, To shade some light on the ongoing debate "Why use an XML UI language? Isn't the plain old Java Swing API good enough?" allow me to quote from Sun's new getting started with JDNC guide.
Here we go: There are a variety of ways in which you can get started with JDNC, depending on your needs. If you are a web developer currently using HTML and JavaScript, you might be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use JDNC components in a web-started application or an applet. If simplicity is key, you might want to start with a markup language interface to JDNC components. If flexibility is paramount, you may use JDNC components directly through their Java API. Whichever approach you take, you will never sacrifice extensibility, as both JDNC components and their XML interface are fully customizable. Also, choosing between the markup language and Java APIs is not an "either/or" decision” - you may freely mix both in a single application. Simplicity Web developers who do not want to code in Java may use JDNC components through JDNC markup language. JDNC Markup Language is not a user interface markup language, but an extensible configuration language for UI and non-UI components alike. JDNC Markup Language brings renewed excitement to the Java platform by making it accessible to a whole new constituency of developers, who might not have considered Java otherwise! Source: https://jdnc.dev.java.net/documentation/start.html Hear. Hear. Any thoughts? Any comments? - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Thinlet Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinlet SwiXml Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swixml JDNC Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jdnc ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
