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

[Christian Campo <christian.campo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Absolutly. we have looked and played already with Nebula and its certainly an attractive
option. We might as well of course use UFace. What are your plans Tom in supporting Nebula
somehow ?
- christian

Tom Schindl schrieb:
> 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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