[eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Declarative UI roundup?

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi gang,

As you may recall, in August we had
a Styling roundup to look at the different available skinning technologies.
 While organizing it, we discussed also wanting to do one for declarative
UIs.

There was a lot of interest at the time,
and there's been lots of discussion on this list lately about different
declarative UI technologies/approaches.  I think the Styling one went
well so I was wondering if folks wanted to do one for declarative UIs?
 Seehttp://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/DeclarativeUI/Styling_Roundup for an
idea.

This would involve some people volunteering
to do a short presentation on a particular technology, either their own
(e.g. XSWT) or one they are familiar with (e.g. XUL).  There'd be
some prep in putting a small amount of information on the e4 wiki, then
a call with presentations.  The idea is to have some decent content
to discuss but not create a big presentation job for folks, so the emphasis
would be on short presentations (and also out of the interest of keeping
the call to say 1.5 hours which will be a challenge I think).

The goals of the call would include
but not be limited to:

1) All getting on the "same page"
with respect to the different technology choices available to us.
2) Open discussion of pros/cons of different
approaches.
3) What problems we believe it will
solve in the e4 context.
4) Hopefully come away with a small
number of "most promising" technologies which the community could
focus on in e4.

Any interest?  Note that this is
community driven content, so "yes" would mean "yes I'll
sign up to provide some content".

Regards,
Kevin