Java SwingBuilder: latest updates on binding, SwingWorker and validations

It may seem quiet in JB land, but deep in the underground bowels of the Furmankiewicz Laboratories, things are churning nightly.

There's a lot of unstable code right now that needs to be finished, hence no new updates, hopefully more next week.

Priority is to complete a 0.1 release which will have finished support for:

a) binding (Bean and EL) e.g.

bind:
- this.lastName : lastNameTextField.text
- this.fullName: "${firstNameTextField.text} ${lastNameTextField.text}"

b) support for running long running methods via SwingWorker

- first, all the event handlers now support executing multiple methods in sequence, so you can do:

onAction: save
or:
onAction: [validate, save, close]

On the Java side you can use an annotation to flag which method is to be run in background:

private void validate() {}

@DoInBackground(progressMessage="Saving customer data...")
private save(BackgroundEvent evt) {}

private close() {
//will only be executed AFTER the background method finishes successfully
}

c) integration with Commons Validations (or JSR 303 if there was a reference implementation), e.g.:

validate:
- firstNameTextField.text : {mandatory : true. minLength: 5, maxLength: 40}

etc, etc.

This is the dev plan for next week and once it's done and stable, 0.1 will be released and then maybe JB will get some notice. Wish me luck in my late night coding endeavours.

P.S. Update for May 12: binding and background task support is done!
Get latest code drop from javabuilders.org to see it.
Working example of both:
http://code.google.com/p/javabuilders/source/browse/trunk/org.javabuilders.swing/samples/org/javabuilders/swing/samples/binding/BindingFrame1.yaml
http://code.google.com/p/javabuilders/source/browse/trunk/org.javabuilders.swing/samples/org/javabuilders/swing/samples/binding/BindingFrame1.java

I need to do some more work on binding to allow binding a target to multiple elements, but that can come later.