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| <li><a href="#project_01">What is XWT?</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="#project_02">Benefices of XWT for eclipse</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="#project_03">Architecture</a></li> | |
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| <h3><a name="project_01"></a>What is XWT?</h3> | |
| <p>Declarative UI is a new programming paradigm, which is widely used in Web application development. In Eclipse, UI development in Java is the only proposed solution. This solution presents several drawbacks:</p> | |
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| <li>High technology pre-requisite as UI developer</li> | |
| <li>Difficult to separate UI appearance and business logic</li> | |
| <li>Poor reusability</li> | |
| <li>Limitation of the dynamic UI support</li> | |
| <li>Very hard to integrate with development tools </li> | |
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| <p align="center"><img src="images/XWTPosition.png" width="800" height="435"></p> | |
| <p>XWT is designed specially for eclipse to resolve these problems by providing a foundation infrastructure. It is a UI framework based on an extensible markup language for application development in declarative programming paradism. | |
| It adopts directly SWT/JFace UI model as XML serialization model. It uses in fact a direct mapping approach between XML grammar and UI runtime libraries.</p> | |
| <p>XWT simplifies UI programming. You can create visible UI elements | |
| in the declarative XML markup with a physical separation of the UI | |
| definition from the run-time logic. An XML based declarative language is | |
| very intuitive for creating interfaces ranging from prototype to | |
| production, especially for people with a background in web design and | |
| technologies. Unlike most other markup languages, XWT directly | |
| represents the instantiation of managed objects.</p> | |
| <p align="center"><img src="images/XWTComponent.png" width="627" height="388"></p> | |
| <p>XWT is XML UI for eclipse.</p> | |
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| <li>XWT is a XML dialect</li> | |
| <li>Designed for human-editable and tooling</li> | |
| <li>Dynamic mapping with programming model</li> | |
| <li>Complete declarative UI framework integrated natively with SWT/JFace</li> | |
| <li>Powerful Declarative Data Binding solution on top of JFace data binding</li> | |
| <li>Reusable data presentation component</li> | |
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| <h3><a name="project_02"></a>Benefices of XWT for eclipse</h3> | |
| <p>The main benefices of XWT are following:</p> | |
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| <li>More human-readable and light-weight markup without ambiguity | |
| between properties and child type</li> | |
| <li>High Extensible</li> | |
| <li>Well defined and complete specification</li> | |
| <li>Mature and Generic Declarative UI solution</li> | |
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| <h3><a name="project_03"></a>Architecture</h3> | |
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| <li>SWT Model as XWT Model<br /> | |
| - This model comes from the JavaBean reflection and additional models | |
| to enhance the limitations of SWT API.</li> | |
| <li>This model can be changed to another</li> | |
| <li>XWT provides more concepts on top of XML<br /> | |
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| <li>Resource separation between UI and Event handling</li> | |
| <li>Dynamic mapping with UI Model and programming language</li> | |
| <li>Resource management</li> | |
| <li>Markup extensions</li> | |
| <li>Binding expression language</li> | |
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