XML based SwingUI

[vishal sodani]

Has any one tried using XML to generate GUI like SwingXML,Jeasy etc.What are its advantages vs actual coding?
thanks

[Stan James]

We used XML-defined forms to avoid distributing a zillion simple Swing panels with a fat client. A small framework allows XML specification of a subset of Swing components. It also populates fields from a Hashmap matching on the component name and moves any data entered to another Hashmap the same way. The whole thing kept the Jar size down on the Java distribution, but added XML files to the mix.
Along with XML-to-Swing tools, there are some XML to generic UI tools that could be portable across languages. That might be another motivation to use XML defined UI.

[ashish kulkarni]

hi
tyr
www.thinlet.com

[vishal sodani]

To use xml-to-swing,seems to me requires very good knowledge of Swing

[Harry Pfohl]

Hello,
the first steps building small applications with swing are hard work.
If the GUI is build in XML and when you have a GUI-Builder with a preview like JEasyRepository, learning SWING is much faster.
You don't have to write source, compile and see what's happen.
Look at www.jeasy.de the Example source code and the Example.xml.
Have fun
Harry