[news.eclipse.platform.swt] XUL (or other markup) 2 SWT - interest and f

["Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath" <tarun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have been thinking of creating a small (and open-source) library to read
layouts outs defined using XUL and rendered as SWT/JFace GUIs. (I have a
bit of spare time and thought this would be a great way to know SWT
through and through).

My motivation for using markup to define SWT/JFace GUI's is easy
maintenance - markup is easy to read (relatively) and easy to change.

There are a number of such projects that are available for Swing, (luxor
xml, thinlets, swixml, etc) but none as yet for SWT.

Swixml takes the approach of defining a custom markup language totally
targeted towards rendering Swing GUI's, thus providing the full power and
flexibility of Swing, at the cost of learning a non-standard markup.

Luxor uses Xul, which is now well-established in the 'developer
consciousness'. Luxor in itself is huge and doesn't in any way satisfy the
requirement of small & slim. Moreoever Xul may not expose the full power
and API set of SWT. (Unless one adds non-standard extra
attributes/elements, possibly in a different namespace).

Just scouting for some comments and advice on the above...

Thanks,
Tarun