http://javabuilders.org [Direct download link]
This is the culmination of many months of research and work, dedicated towards bringing the power of declarative UIs to Java Swing (and in the near future SWT), by utilizing the YAML file format (instead of XML or JSON) to define the UI and related functionality such as method handlers (no need to write action listeners, ever), support for long running background tasks, data binding, input validation, etc. All layout functionality is based around the amazing MigLayout layout manager and provides a simple DSL to it that makes creating UIs a breeze.
More info available at the Java Builders wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/javabuilders/wiki/Overview
http://code.google.com/p/javabuilders/wiki/JavaSwingBuilder
The 0.1 beta release also comes with optional integration libraries for SwingX and Jide Common Layer swing components.
Some highlights:
- Data binding is performed using the standard Beans Binding library.
- Layout management is performed using MigLayout and nothing but MigLayout (it makes all JDK layout managers obsolete and you owe a favour to yourself to learn MigLayout and forget about GridBagLayout and GroupLayout once and for all).
- Early versions of integrated input validation is performed using Apache Commons Validators.
- Support for long running tasks is performed using SwingWorker.
All you need to start using it in your project is a decent YAML editor, for Eclipse we recommend the Eclipse YAML editor.
Unfortunately, the JavaBuilders project is not usable with NetBeans due to a critical bug in their YAML editor, which at this point they have no plan to fix. We recommend you use Eclipse or IDEA IntelliJ instead.
For any questions, support, enhancements, etc. please join our
Java Builders Google Group
Long term plans are to provide a full-blown alternative to JavaFX, so that developers can use declarative UI and provide desktop FX in pure Java. Our next step on that path will be to integrate the amazing JXLayer library as a standard means of providing FX to your Swing app.
Scenegraph support will be added once they write up some documentation and change the license from pure GPL to something more business-friendly.
18 comments:
Hey Jacek,
Congratulations on launching Java SwingBuilder!
The whole area of declarative UI generation seems to have exploded in recent months - let's hope it doesn't turn into the new 'webapp framework' with hundreds of different, competing products :)
Before we both get too far down the track, I just thought I'd make sure you'd seen Metawidget.
I think there's real opportunity for our projects to benefit each other. For example, you could write a YAMLInspector for Metawidget and have YAML-driven front-ends for Swing, JSF, GWT, Android etc. for free.
There are numerous other similarities between our two projects. For example, you could add your MigLayout-based Layout into Metawidget's pluggable layout system.
I quite understand if you want to 'go it alone', and I'm sure we would each benefit from the competition (maybe one day we can unify under a JSR?), but on the other hand teaming up may benefit us both.
It would seem SwingBuilder has a slightly broader scope to Metawidget, so perhaps Metawidget could just sit underneath SwingBuilder? That way you wouldn't lose your brand.
Regards,
Richard.
Metawidget sounds quite interesting, but I believe our focus is a bit different.
Your project seems more focused on UI generation from the backend, while mine is geared towards productive MANUAL coding of the UI.
I am not quite sure if they compete together (need to read up more). I guess my issue at this point in time is that I have very limited time to work on this so I would prefer to focus on my project as a stand-alone best-of-breed solution (and I still have so much work to do: SwingX, SWT, JSeamless, etc) before I look at anything else.
I appreciate your offer and if I had 8 hours a day to work on this I would surely evaluate the overlap. But I only have 1hr or less per day for this, hence unfortunately for now I have to prioritize elsewhere :-(
Understood. I wish you every success, and I will enjoy keeping an eye on SwingBuilder :)
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