[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Plans for UI builder?

["Dale King" <KingD@xxxxxxx>]

"Scott Stanchfield" <thetick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I would avoid going with a different GUI builder until we have a good
> one for WSW. The problem is that all builders store the "visual design"
> in a proprietary format, and if you move to another one, moving away is
> that much harder.


And luckily that will be changing. 1.4 will have an XML format for bean
persistance and it has already been demonstrated allowing compatibility
between GUI builders on Forte, JBuilder, and VAJ.

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence/
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence2/
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence3/

--
 Dale King