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

sounds cool.  i'd definitely support that as a parallel effort.  :)


> Yes, I am suggesting that we build SWT bindings into Jython. Yes,
> Jython does have gui widgets already. And no- jython is NOT another
> language.
>
> Jython is Java. All Jython (not python) does is compile jython scripts
> to java code, compile that to bytecode and insert it into the VM at
> runtime. So the widgets Jython is using *are* swing widgets. And since
> it is not anotehr language you can go back and forth at runtime. You
> can declare objects in Jython and communicate with them from Java and
> Visa Versa. So, since you can use Swing from Jython (which is really
> Java) you should also be able to use SWT.
>
> -jonathan





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