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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Re: FW: SWT History and Design Decisions ( WAS: [platform-swt-dev] AWT Toolkit using SWT (was: From Swing to SWT))
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oops. I am in the wrong thread group :).
I will start to check in with wiki.
-Lane
Dave Orme wrote:
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Also, I have given some more thought to SWT, Conga and GUI building.
Taking a note from java.sql.*, I believe the first design and requirement
spec should result in an interface package, o.e.gui.*.
j.sql.* is a well-thought out java package because it allows for so many
DB builders to implement around a common, robust, and sufficiently abstract
design.
This is exactly what Sweet is already and one
of the goals it aims to achieve.
I propose as a first step that a working group design a common package
which can be used by the Builder at Design time and by an App at Runtime.
Then, implementations around SWT and various incarnations of SWT could
be achieved behind the interface package as is done by DB vendors in implementing
JDBC.
To give credit where it's due, Scott suggested
exactly this idea last Thursday. Since then, he Joe, and I have effectively
already formed the working group you propose and have been working together
on this mailing list and on the Wiki. Over the past few days, Joe and Scott
have actually contributed more help than anyone else and I welcome everyone's
participation. (And thanks to Joe and Scott for their excellent help.)
See you on the Wiki!
Dave
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Lane Sharman
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http://opendoors.com/lane.pdf BIO
