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 <document>
   <properties>
     <title>JellySWT</title>
     <author email="jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</author>
   </properties>

   <body>
     <section name="JellySWT">
       <p>
         JellySWT is a simple Jelly library which can be used to create SWT user interfaces.
         It allows XML documents (Jelly scripts) to be used to define the layout and rendering of SWT
         front ends which avoids lots of mundane Java coding, using markup to define the view
         of your front end and allowing you to bind to Java code for the business objects and models.
       </p>
       <p>
         This mechanism uses seperation of concerns and MVC ideas from web applications, allowing the rendering
         of your SWT front end to be easily transformed (since its XML) into different styles while leaving your
         model and business objects untouched. It also allows different views to be constructed independently of your models.
       </p>
       <p>
         There is an example JellySWT script
         <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/jelly/jelly-tags/swt/src/test/org/apache/commons/jelly/tags/swt/example.jelly?rev=HEAD">here</a>
       </p>
       <p>
         To try running the example, cd into the <i>[jelly-home]/jelly-tags/swt</i> directory
         and type the following command, you should see a full SWT user interface
         appear with pull down menus, a simple form, a table, toolbar buttons, tooltip etc.
       </p>
       <source>maven demo</source>
     </section>

     <section name="Running SWT">
       <p>
         Please be aware that SWT uses JNI and so requires a runtime library to be on your PATH for any SWT application to run.
         You can refer to this <a href="http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/26">FAQ</a> entry for more details.
       </p>
       <p>
         For example on my windows laptop I copied the <i>swt-win32-2116.dll</i> from Eclipse into my PATH before running the examples.
       </p>
     </section>

     <section name="Useful SWT Links">
         <ul>
       <li>
         <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/html/plugins/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/doc/reference/api/index.html">SWT Javadoc</a>
         is very handy. Its mostly the widgets package thats of most interest.
       </li>
       <li>
         This <a href="http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/2">SWT Wiki</a> has lots of good examples and documentation.
       </li>
       <li>
           This <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html">page</a> also has a list of lots of little example SWT applications.
       </li>
         </ul>
     </section>

   </body>
 </document>
	<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<!--
	Copyright 2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.

	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	You may obtain a copy of the License at

	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
	distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
	WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
	See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
	limitations under the License.
	-->

	<document>
	<properties>
	<title>JellySWT</title>
	<author email="jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</author>
	</properties>

	<body>
	<section name="JellySWT">
	<p>
	JellySWT is a simple Jelly library which can be used to create SWT user interfaces.
	It allows XML documents (Jelly scripts) to be used to define the layout and rendering of SWT
	front ends which avoids lots of mundane Java coding, using markup to define the view
	of your front end and allowing you to bind to Java code for the business objects and models.
	</p>
	<p>
	This mechanism uses seperation of concerns and MVC ideas from web applications, allowing the rendering
	of your SWT front end to be easily transformed (since its XML) into different styles while leaving your
	model and business objects untouched. It also allows different views to be constructed independently of your models.
	</p>
	<p>
	There is an example JellySWT script
	<a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/jelly/jelly-tags/swt/src/test/org/apache/commons/jelly/tags/swt/example.jelly?rev=HEAD">here</a>
	</p>
	<p>
	To try running the example, cd into the <i>[jelly-home]/jelly-tags/swt</i> directory
	and type the following command, you should see a full SWT user interface
	appear with pull down menus, a simple form, a table, toolbar buttons, tooltip etc.
	</p>
	<source>maven demo</source>
	</section>

	<section name="Running SWT">
	<p>
	Please be aware that SWT uses JNI and so requires a runtime library to be on your PATH for any SWT application to run.
	You can refer to this <a href="http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/26">FAQ</a> entry for more details.
	</p>
	<p>
	For example on my windows laptop I copied the <i>swt-win32-2116.dll</i> from Eclipse into my PATH before running the examples.
	</p>
	</section>

	<section name="Useful SWT Links">
	<ul>
	<li>
	<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/html/plugins/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/doc/reference/api/index.html">SWT Javadoc</a>
	is very handy. Its mostly the widgets package thats of most interest.
	</li>
	<li>
	This <a href="http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/2">SWT Wiki</a> has lots of good examples and documentation.
	</li>
	<li>
	This <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html">page</a> also has a list of lots of little example SWT applications.
	</li>
	</ul>
	</section>

	</body>
	</document>