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From: John E. Simpson <simpson@p...> >>>How do you build a high performance, fast loading web interface that has the >>>speed of HTML, but the screen design flexibility of Java applets? Also >assume >>>that you are in an environment where you are not able to pre-load >plug-ins which >>>would help the applet loading. My interest in XML is largely centered around program composition. Case in point, using an XML file to assemble Swing components into an interactive GUI. A lot of Swing programming is the glue code for assembling components. This tends to be hard to read, consequently hard to maintain, and weaved together with small smatterings of application logic. But it is inherently tree structured. Replacing that glue code with an XML-document driven composition system means that you have a easy to read (compared to the glue code) document which naturally reflects the tree structure of the GUI. It also means that, aside from a small XML document and a little bit of application logic, the only thing you need to download is the composer--which is fixed for all applications. Also, you don't need to download the Swing components, which can be used unmidified and which should already be present. BML, Bluestone, and MDSAX are three different implementations to this general approach. Bill xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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