10:00-10:30 Overview of XWT - Declarative UI for enterprise application
Yves YANG (Soyatec ), Thomas Guiu (Soyatec )
Making For Eclipse · Sponsored
Tuesday, 10:00, 20 minutes | Bayshore East
Tags: e4 , UI / RCP
Yves YANG
Declarative UI is a new programming paradigm on UI, which is widely used in Web application development. Eclipse supports only UI programming in Java. This solution presents several drawbacks:
- High technology pre-requisite as UI developer
- Difficult to separate UI appearance and business logic
- Poor reusability
- Limitation of the dynamic UI support
- Very hard to integrate with develop tools
e4 takes a good initive to investigate some new technology to make the development easy such as XWT. XWT is designed to provide a foundation solution to resolve these problems with XML Object dynamic mapping solution defined in a mature Open Specification.
The key benefices of this solution for enterprise information application are following
- True reusable component system with a clean architecture
- High customization to define domain library
- Rich integration with all existing eclipse environment and tools
- Minimize the technical Pre-requisites
Agenda
- What's XWT
- Architecture
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Features
- Markup language
- SWT, JFace, Nebula, Eclipse forms, etc
- Support of Styling
- Unified Declarative Data Binding
- Extensibility and reusability
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Execution Environment
- Eclipse e4 integration to demonstrate how easy to develop e4 application using Visual designers
- XWT standalone application
- Show case of the integration with Modeling UI - PMF
Yves YANG, Eclipse committer, has over 18 years of experience working with OO software development and mainly worked on Eclipse and ODBMS: GemStone, Matisse and Versant. He was the chief architect of first Eclipse UML plugin from 2002 to early 2006. He is also the project leader of the eclipse project: ESL, VE and PMF. He is the main contributor of XWT, XWT Designer and e4 Workbench Designer. His activities focus on the Modeling UI and Visual UI Tools.