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* improve adoption of Eclipse Core technologies (like Eclipse-Databinding) outside RCP and SWT (e.g. Swing, GWT-Applications)
 
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* improve usability of Eclipse-Databinding by providing a high-level Widget-API
 
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This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php Eclipse Development Process] document) and is written to declare the intent and scope of the component. This proposal is written to solicit additional participation and input from the Eclipse community. Everyone is invited to comment on and/or join the component. Please send all feedback to the [news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform eclipse.platform] newsgroup (please prefix the subject with [UFacekit]).
 
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==

Revision as of 03:55, 5 September 2008

Introduction

UFacekit is a proposed open source component under the Eclipse Platform Incubator project. UFacekit's purpose is to:

  • improve adoption of Eclipse Core technologies (like Eclipse-Databinding) outside RCP and SWT (e.g. Swing, GWT-Applications)
  • improve usability of Eclipse-Databinding by providing a high-level Widget-API

Background

Since the 3.3 release Eclipse ships a top-notch databinding libary (Eclipse-Databinding) to easy development of UI-Application backed with a model. In time of 3.4 we saw adoption of Eclipse-Databinding in many RCP applications and new libraries supporting model implementations (EMF) beside JavaBeans(tm) but we didn't saw support for other Widget-Toolkit (like Swing, GWT, ...) although the main Libary is designed to make this possible. This means that Eclipse-Databinding is not used in applications who are not using SWT and JFace although there's no good reason to do so.

UFacekit was started a year ago by James Strachan and Tom Schindl (Angelo Zerr and Kenneth Westelinck joined the project later) with the following set of targets:

  • promote reuse of rich UI code across Eclipse (JFace/SWT), GWT and Swing runtimes by providing a facade around different UI-Technologies
  • promote the use of JFace Data Binding within GWT and Swing communities by providing Eclipse-Databinding-Observable implementations for them
  • simplify rich UI development by providing simpler facades and powerful binding

Scope

The objectives for an initial version of UFacekit are:

  • a highlevel, widget-toolkit and model-indepent Widget API to easily bind widgets (including validation and decoration support)
    • UI
      • implementation for SWT/JFace
      • implementation for Swing
    • Model
      • JavaBeans
      • EObjects (EMF)
      • UBeans
  • Observable implementations for Swing
  • Observable implementations for UBean
  • Observable implementations for XML-DOM
  • org.eclipse.core.databinding for use in GWT applications based upon current stable Eclipse release
  • Observable implementations for GWT-Widgets

Additional functionality considered for later versions of UFacekit:

  • Support for Eclipse-Forms
  • Support to define UI and UFacekit-Applications (Upplication) using EMF
  • Support to design Upplications using GEF
  • Support for other Java-UI-Toolkits (QT-Jambi, DOJO, ...)
  • Declarative Styling

Relationship with other Eclipse-based Projects

UFacekit has a strong relation to the following projects:

  • Eclipse-Databinding (Core & JFace) providing the foundation for the high-level API
  • EMF

Organization

Initial Committers

  • Tom Schindl - tom.schindl@bestsolution.at
  • James Strachan
  • Angelo Zerr
  • Kenneth Westelinck

Initial Code Contribution

UFacekit-Project

Interested Parties

Tentative Plan

Q4 - 2008: A first not feature complete release

Q1 - 2009: First public release

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