[news.eclipse.platform.swt] [ANN] Novocode Application Framework 0.4 rel

[Stefan Zeiger <szeiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'd like to announce the release of Novocode Application Framework 0.4.

NAF provides a layer of MVC-based GUI components on top of SWT and
JFace. A GUI is specified as a tree of NAF components which can then be
instantiated as SWT controls. More than just a one to one wrapper of
SWT component properties, NAF includes resource management (e.g. shared
images and fonts), simplified configuration (e.g. CSS-like size units
for layout managers) and model binding. Component trees can be
described in a simple XML notation or in JavaScript with an extended
JSON format. Applications can also be written entirely in JavaScript.
The resource management framework can be used to instantiate and
configure your own classes with a few simple annotations, and it is
easily extended for other description or scripting languages.

It's been a while since the last release which is in part due to design
problems with the previous versions, which took me quite some time to
resolve. The project still doesn't have a catchier name :-) but it is
now a lot easier to write custom components and the resource management
framework can be extended for formats other than XML. The major new
feature from an application programmer's point of view is the
JavaScript support.

NAF is licensed under EPL 1.0 and can be downloaded from
http://novocode.com/naf/

Any feedback is welcome.

-- 
Stefan Zeiger - Developer of Novocode Application Framework
Build SWT-based MVC GUIs via XML: http://www.novocode.com/naf/