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It is strange the way things sometimes come up in the blogging world. I've been doing a little research into XML GUI frameworks for Desktop Java Live. This morning I notice the following blog post:

Some XML to GUI Tools
I been developing Java GUI for about 2 years and frankly It?s not very good experience. Sometimes I missed how easy to build GUI in VB or Delphi. I know that netbeans has GUI builder and we can use JBuilder to make some nice GUI, but I don?t really satisfied with the result from both tools.

Apparently I'm not the only one looking at XML GUI sites today. So with that in mind here is a fresh batch of links related to this topic if anyone is interested on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

SwingML
SwingML is an effort to create a markup language to render in a web browser JFC/Swing based graphical user interfaces.

SwiXml
SwiXml, is a small GUI generating engine for Java applications and applets. Graphical User Interfaces are described in XML documents that are parsed at runtime and rendered into javax.swing objects.

Beryl XML GUI
The Beryl XML GUI library was written to ease the development of graphical user interfaces using Swing on Java. It lets you store user interfaces as XML markup. This will help you avoid unnecessary clutter in your source - Swing code mixed with application logic can become a troublesome and hard to read mess as the application size increases. The library comes with a visual component builder, which makes development a breeze.

Thinlet
Thinlet is a GUI toolkit, a single Java class, parses the hierarchy and properties of the GUI, handles user interaction, and calls business logic. Separates the graphic presentation (described in an XML file) and the application methods (written as Java code).

Luxor
Luxor is a free, open-source XML UI Language (XUL) toolkit in released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) that lets you build UIs using XML and includes an ultra-light weight, multi-threaded web server, a portal engine, a template engine (Velocity), a scripting interpreter (Python) and more.