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Try Metawidget right now in your browser (13 messages)
- Posted by: Richard Kennard
- Posted on: December 18 2008 07:32 EST
Metawidget provides a Live Demo that's ready to evaluate right here, in your browser: http://metawidget.org/live-demo We've put together a Groovy applet, pre-loaded with the Metawidget JAR and a short script, so you can just click 'Run'. The script demonstrates using a Groovy/JPA/Hibernate Validator business model with a Swing-based Metawidget - though Metawidget also supports a wide variety of back-ends (JEXL, Hibernate, JavaBeans, jBPM, Swing AppFramework) and front-ends (Android, GWT, JSF, JSP, Spring, Struts). You can play with Metawidget by changing the business model (adding fields, altering annotations etc) or even import your own business object JARs to see how Metawidget renders them! Your continued feedback is invaluable to us. Please let us know what you think.Threaded Messages (13)
- has to be asked... by Joseph Ottinger on December 18 2008 10:16 EST
- Metapost by Dean Chapman on December 18 2008 11:18 EST
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Apology by Richard Kennard on December 18 2008 04:29 EST
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Re: Apology by Chief Thrall on December 19 2008 01:00 EST
- Complementary, not comparable by Richard Kennard on December 19 2008 05:42 EST
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Re: Apology by Chief Thrall on December 19 2008 01:00 EST
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Apology by Richard Kennard on December 18 2008 04:29 EST
- It's on their site (homepage)....... sigh... by Ronald van Kuijk on December 18 2008 11:20 EST
- Re: It's on their site (homepage)....... sigh... by Joseph Ottinger on December 18 2008 12:22 EST
- Re: has to be asked... by Eric Rich on December 19 2008 09:16 EST
- Re: has to be asked... by Joseph Ottinger on December 19 2008 12:00 EST
- Metapost by Dean Chapman on December 18 2008 11:18 EST
- I encourage people to take a look by Ivaylo Kovatchev on December 18 2008 11:58 EST
- Touch up code? by Richard Kennard on December 20 2008 21:48 EST
- Re: Try Metawidget right now in your browser by Mark N on December 18 2008 13:37 EST
- Re: Try Metawidget right now in your browser by Mark N on December 18 2008 13:38 EST
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has to be asked...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Joseph Ottinger
- Posted on: December 18 2008 10:16 EST
- in response to Richard Kennard
WHAT IS METAWIDGET!!?!? You tell me I can try it, that's great... but I still have no idea what it is! Do I have to read the whole post and inductively figure out what the heck it is? if it's that hard to define, I don't want to bother. Come on, guys, there're two "how to write posts on TSS" links in every "submit news" page... try to read them! -
Metapost[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dean Chapman
- Posted on: December 18 2008 11:18 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
MetaPost provides a true framework for your TSS posts including: * Links * Buzzwords Simply extend and provide your own name and product description! :) -
Apology[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Richard Kennard
- Posted on: December 18 2008 16:29 EST
- in response to Dean Chapman
Joseph, Dean, I apologise for not including a description of what Metawidget actually is. I usually do, but this time I was too focused on the Live Demo. To answer your question: Metawidget is a 'smart User Interface widget' that populates itself, at runtime, with UI components to match the properties of your business objects. I will remember to write that in future posts. Regards, Richard. -
Re: Apology[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Chief Thrall
- Posted on: December 19 2008 13:00 EST
- in response to Richard Kennard
Metawidget is a 'smart User Interface widget' that populates itself, at runtime, with UI components to match the properties of your business objects.
Is Metawidget comparable in any sense to Oracle's ADF solution? Not in UI technology sense but in unified from backend to frontent integration sense. -
Complementary, not comparable[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Richard Kennard
- Posted on: December 19 2008 17:42 EST
- in response to Chief Thrall
Chief Thrall, Thanks for your interest in Metawidget. Metawidget is complementary to Oracle's ADF rather than comparable. It is intended to be used alongside ADF components. Although the distribution does not include an ADF example, it does include a JBoss RichFaces one (so you can see how Metawidget works with third-party component libraries like ADF) and a Seam one (so you can see how Metawidget works with state-management frameworks like ADF). Metawidget is not a UI framework, or a web framework, or an app framework, and has no overlap. It simply automates your existing UI framework, web framework and app framework to save you both writing, and maintaining, a lot of duplicated code. If you get time to have a look at it, I'd be very interested in hearing how you go. Regards, Richard. -
It's on their site (homepage)....... sigh...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ronald van Kuijk
- Posted on: December 18 2008 11:20 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
You can reach that via the overview button on the left where the demo runs... But in case you are lazy: http://metawidget.sourceforge.net/index.html -
Re: It's on their site (homepage)....... sigh...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Joseph Ottinger
- Posted on: December 18 2008 12:22 EST
- in response to Ronald van Kuijk
I'm sure it's on their site. But why should I go to their site? I'm not being given the slightest reason to do so - besides the name, "MetaWidget," which honestly doesn't mean anything to me offhand. -
Re: has to be asked...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Eric Rich
- Posted on: December 19 2008 09:16 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
I can live with poor posts. It was perhaps a bit too difficult to get a post approved by Joe sometimes. :-) I agree that Metawidget is worth taking a look at. What is with all of this SPAM on TheServerSide though? Maybe someone should post about how to prevent SPAM in forums? Javalobby and InfoQ are starting to get a leg up on TheServerSide it seems. :-( I hope to see TheServerSide return to it's full glory soon! Flux - Java Job Scheduler. File Transfer. Workflow. -
Re: has to be asked...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Joseph Ottinger
- Posted on: December 19 2008 12:00 EST
- in response to Eric Rich
I can live with poor posts. It was perhaps a bit too difficult to get a post approved by Joe sometimes. :-)
It's well known how to prevent spam, in a lot of ways: I actually wrote a project (https://ci-bayes.dev.java.net) to do it, but it never got integrated into TSS itself. I was always willing to hear why your post should have been approved when it wasn't...
I agree that Metawidget is worth taking a look at.
What is with all of this SPAM on TheServerSide though? Maybe someone should post about how to prevent SPAM in forums?
Javalobby and InfoQ are starting to get a leg up on TheServerSide it seems. :-(
I hope to see TheServerSide return to it's full glory soon!
Flux - Java Job Scheduler. File Transfer. Workflow. -
I encourage people to take a look[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ivaylo Kovatchev
- Posted on: December 18 2008 11:58 EST
- in response to Richard Kennard
I am not sure why people are jumping on Kennard, with respect maybe it is being jaded to all the "news" flowing through TSS these days. I have taken the time to evaluate Metawidget, and I must say it is worth a look, at least. I am actually using it (albeit slightly modified) in code for a client of mine. Metawidget provides good dynamic UIs, but in addition, it is well worth taking a look at it in the role of a rapid prototype development tool. That was a huge value add for me personally. As far as cons, I would suggest that it tries to be a jack of all trades, and the particular metawidget implementations (I have used SwingMetawidget) need a bit of touch up code to really look how you want them. Very impressive web demo, Richard! -
Touch up code?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Richard Kennard
- Posted on: December 20 2008 21:48 EST
- in response to Ivaylo Kovatchev
i k, Thanks for your kind words. I'd be most grateful if you could contact me at http://kennardconsulting.com/contact/index.jsf. I'd really appreciate understanding the touch up code and modifications you found you needed, so that I can see about rolling them into the main trunk. Regards, Richard. -
Re: Try Metawidget right now in your browser[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mark N
- Posted on: December 18 2008 13:37 EST
- in response to Richard Kennard
Looks interesting. It sounds conceptually like NakedObjects. -
Re: Try Metawidget right now in your browser[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mark N
- Posted on: December 18 2008 13:38 EST
- in response to Mark N
Looks interesting. It sounds conceptually like NakedObjects.
LOL. Looking at the FAQ now - http://metawidget.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/comparison.html