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

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

When it comes to a UI-discussion there's a proposed component for Nebula 
which looks fairly cool. If Riena decides to provide special UI-Widgets 
I would say that you should get in touch with the Nebula people and 
discuss those widgets.

http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.nebula/msg01013.html

Tom

Manuel Steurer schrieb:
> Hi Christian,
>
> thanks for your answer.
> We are developing a multi-layered client-server architecture,
> so we are interested in riena. That is, the architecture- and 
> server-folks at my company are, I'm responsible for developing 
> an RCP-Client. They liked the look of your sample-app and
> wanted me to emulate it (no, I have not been to your presentation).
> I'll talk with our jee-guru next week and let you know if he
> has any wishes concering riena. 
>
> greetings,
> Manuel
>
>
>
> Christian Campo wrote:
>
> > 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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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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