[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: SWT/JFace data-binding

["David J. Orme" <djo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ola wrote:
> Is there any support for data-binding i SWT/JFace ?
> If so, does anyone have web-links to information?

1) Essential Data is a very expensive full-featured suite.  The primary 
developer left the company some time ago and I don't know how well 
supported it is now, but it might be worth a look.  The last I heard, 
they were asking $10,000 per seat for a commercial license or you can 
download the source code under the terms of the GNU GPL from Sourceforge.

http://www.swtworkbench.com
http://essentialdata.sourceforge.net

Contrary to what they say, the latest source code is available in 
SourceForge CVS.


2) The VE team has been playing around with a very simple but powerful 
data binding framework for both Swing and SWT.  The initial code drop 
landed in the Visual Editor Project CVS yesterday.

This is experimental code that we're releasing because so many people 
have requested this kind of thing, kind of like the SWT team's OpenGL 
plug-in.  But it's small, simple, easy to extend, and if your needs are 
very simple or you don't mind extending it, it might work for you.

The announcement is available at:

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=3860&group=eclipse.tools.ve#3860

If you use it, please contribute patches! :-)


Best regards,

Dave Orme

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