[news.eclipse.technology.riena] Re: Riena Gui

[Christian Campo <christian.campo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Manuel,

I am not sure if you where in the presentation. At the Eclipse Summit we presented Riena for the first
time and the scope, the goal and the vision behind it. Riena was initiated afer we ran a large customer
project for multiple years that uses a similar application model (distributed business components on client
and server). The screen shot is from that customer application which is that sense the vision where we want
to get too.

However the customer project is based on another framework that we also developed but that framework is not Riena or
code currently coming in Riena. The customer project uses a different bean container (Hivemind from Apache) and
it uses Swing as Widget toolkit.
Riena of course will use Equinox/OSGi and SWT etc. as the widget toolkit. We are currently in the process
of recreating the UI using SWT but as you can see from our project plan (http://www.eclipse.org/riena and
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Riena_Project#Riena_Project_Plan) this is not yet available.

There is of course the chance that we come across the same problems that you have :-).

Can you talk about what kind of applications your are doing ? Is it a RCP application (standalone client) or
more a Riena type of application (client and server) ?

Anything you are missing in the current list of things we are creating in Riena ? Any requirments, wishes (now is the
time).

If there is anything let me know

regards
christian

Manuel Steurer schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> in the presentation ESE-2007-Riena.pdf there is a
> screenshot of a sample application, see attachment.
> I'm trying to emulate this look, but did not yet
> succeed with the placement of the main menu. I can't
> place anything (i.e. a banner) above it. How did you do this?
>
> thanks,
> Manuel
>
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