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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-sandbox/jelly/src/test/org/apache/commons/jelly/swt/example.jelly?rev=HEAD">here</a>
       </p>
       <p>
         To try running the example type the following command then 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:swt
       </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"?>

	<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-sandbox/jelly/src/test/org/apache/commons/jelly/swt/example.jelly?rev=HEAD">here</a>
	</p>
	<p>
	To try running the example type the following command then 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:swt
	</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>