Sapia OSS releases Gumby 1.0
[tss] Gumby is a XUL framework that closely sticks to Swing, and will be mastered rapidly by Swing programmers that are looking for a productivity boost.
One of Gumby’s goals is to elimitate the hassles that consume so much time when building UIs in Java: the tedious code-compile-test cycle, the harcodedness and verbose syntax (casting, static typing), the wiring Java code that links UI components with business logic and that often becomes spaghettified.
Gumby sports the following features:
* XML markup that is tightly bound to Swing: you use XML elements and attributes to instantiate objects and call methods on these objects.
* As part of the toolkit, a couple of classes and interfaces that helps structure applications and can easily be integrated with existing lightweight containers.
* Scripting integration through BeanShell and Pnuts.
* Support for databinding: build forms in a snap through a clean MVC implementation.
* Some goodies such as the TablePanel class that puts an HTML-ish face on the dreaded GridBagLayout.
* Ability to extend the framework with your own tags.
* Exhaustively documented.
For more details: http://www.sapia-oss.org/projects/gumby/.
