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RE: [platform-swt-dev] Re: FW: SWT History and Design Decisions ( WAS: [platform-swt-dev] AWT Toolkit using SWT (was: From Swing to SWT))
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Also, I have given some more thought to SWT, Conga and GUI building.
Taking a note from java.sql.*, I believe the first design and requirement spec
should result in an interface package, o.e.gui.*.
j.sql.* is a
well-thought out java package because it allows for so many DB builders to
implement around a common, robust, and sufficiently abstract
design.
This
is exactly what Sweet is already and one of the goals it aims to
achieve.
I propose as a first step that a working group design a common package
which can be used by the Builder at Design time and by an App at Runtime.
Then, implementations around SWT and various incarnations of SWT could be
achieved behind the interface package as is done by DB vendors in implementing
JDBC.
To give credit where it's due, Scott suggested exactly this idea last
Thursday. Since then, he Joe, and I have effectively already formed
the working group you propose and have been working together on this mailing
list and on the Wiki. Over the past few days, Joe and Scott have actually
contributed more help than anyone else and I welcome everyone's
participation. (And thanks to Joe and Scott for their excellent
help.)
See
you on the Wiki!
Dave