RE: [platform-swt-dev] possible XML SWT markup language?

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> The problem is most of these libraries have a license incompatible with
> Eclipse.

?!???  i'm not a licencing expert by any means, in fact it's only now that
i looked closely enough to see that eclipse is CPL, not GPL.  but what's
the problem between the two?  you can't build GPLed code on top of CPLed?

-- derek


> Here's another one: http://jgb.sourceforge.net/
> See also the XAML work in Longhorn (sorry, no link).
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> The problem is most of these libraries have a license incompatible with
> Eclipse. I haven't tried JellySWT or XAML myself but I think the
> concept of an XML GUI markup language would be very helpful. After all,
> that's essentially what HTML is for web pages, right? Hmmm... maybe a
> GUI markup language should really start with XHTML.
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> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Dave Orme [mailto:DaveO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> 	Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:14 AM
> 	To: 'platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> 	Subject: RE: [platform-swt-dev] SV: [platform-swt-dev] possible XML
> 	SWT markup language?
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> 	> there are some projects beginning to emerge at that front:
> 	> Jelly-SWT has it's SWT-binding at
> 	> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/jelly/jellyswt.html
> 	> <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/jelly/jellyswt.html>  but
> 	> the authors of that package are working on Xulux and Nyx
> 	> now. The thought is very cool ...
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> 	> http://nyx.xulux.org/index.html <http://nyx.xulux.org/index.html>
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> 	I was aware of JellySWT, but not about xylux.  Thanks for the links.
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