http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang My Projects in Eclipse Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why Data Binding? Data binding is a process that establishes a connection between the application UI and business logic. Since 2006, eclipse has worked on this solution. Here is the purpose of JFace data binding, given in JFace Data Binding Introduction: Developing line of business applications as Eclipse Rich Client Platform applications ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/11/13/declarative-data-binding-part-1/ During the ESE 2009 last week, I have shown a demo with a WYSIWYG editor for XWT in e4 Symphosium and XWT session. It is a tool like VE of eclipse. But the architecture is completely different. XWT Designer relies on XML, instead of Java in VE. And also it ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/11/02/xwt-designer/ In the previous post, I have shown up the Trigger, which is in fact a Control Trigger. The source of Trigger is a UI Control such as Button. It looks like Control Binding, but it is a little bit different in features. Control binding is used to synchronize the state ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/11/01/xwt-data-trigger-2/ One of the most common features of any modern application, whether web-based or client-based, is the dynamic aspect of user interface elements. These include buttons that highlight when focused or clicked, images that change when the mouse is rolled over them, text boxes that change color to indicate errors, the ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/10/12/xwt-ui-trigger-1/ Here is the screencast to help getting started XWT: http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/07/05/xwt-getting-started-ii/ I'm pleased to announce the come-back of VE in Eclipse stream after more than two years' sleeping. Now the builds for eclipse 3.4 and 3.5 are available here: http://www.eclipse.org/vep/downloads/ The VE home page gets updated as well. I'd like to thank Nick Boldt who had done an excellent job to re-integrate ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/06/26/eclipse-ve-gets-revived/ As a candidate of the declarative UI solution in e4, XWT contributed by Soyatec has been integrated in e4 official CVS repository and is available for download. Click here to jump on the download page. This framework consists of two features: Runtime engine (org.eclipse.e4.xwt) Development tools (org.eclipse.e4.xwt.tools) The tools ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2009/01/17/xwt-getting-started/ Introduction With today's Eclipse 3.x stream, UI development uses still direct programming mode: UI controls and event handling are directly created 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 ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2008/11/28/xwt-declarative-ui-designed-for-eclipse/ Dave has dropped a post in his blog about the WTP Visual Editor for XML: VEX. By coincidence, the project SLDT known as eclipse4SL in Sourceforge, has also a VEX, which is used by eFace and eclipse4SL for XAML edition. This component is our donation to the Open ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2008/10/17/vex-in-sldt/ eclipse4SL is the code named of Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight. The purpose of this project is to provide a cross-platform development environment to build Rich Internet Application (RIA) Web application on Microsoft Silverlight in Eclipse. It consists in a set of plug-ins that addresses two main issues: Silverlight applications ... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/yvesyang/2008/10/16/from-eclipse4sl-to-eclipse-sldt/