Blog Archive for evanx during June 2008
Web 1.0, XUL, Ajax, Laszlo, Flex and Silverlight have a common
approach - declare the UI view using markup (HTML or XML), and use JavaScript to handle the UI events and manipulate the UI.
JavaFX/Swing is a notable exception - which is exciting and/or
risky?! 'Cos Web developers know and love JavaScript and HTML, so XML plus JavaScript is right up their alley.
If you're a Java UI programmer,...
Rather than put our "application logic" in a "messy" view class, we create a
separate "controller" class, with event handlers.
We wish this controller class to be as neat and tidy as possible
eg. with minimal boilerplate or much else besides our application logic.
Let's explore how we might achieve this, using an
annotation-driven application framework, with some AOP
and convention-over-...
Who knows why i have a dislike for symbols like ->, => and even := ?!
It's pathological, i know that, and i have an obsessive-compulsive (dis)order when it comes to code, and so be it.
So in the previous posting in this series of reports on my pointless coffee shop doodlings, i suggested the likes of username.property to refer to a PropertyDescriptor eg. for the purpose of toolable bindings...
