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A friend of mine is using a russian rich-GUI DHTML /
JavaScript framework on the browser to access information that resides on
a J2EE back-end. He was commenting me the other day that maintaining this
framework he bought was becoming a nightmare, and that he was looking for
alternative solutions to it.
Last night I was in Lisbon's St.
Anthony party (today is supposed to be a holyday here but I'm working
nonetheless) and I remembered Mozilla's
XUL (yap, that's geek enought, thinking about XUL in the middle of a
partying street at 2.a.m.). Today I hit google and tried to find out if
there was anything that would allow me to define an interface with XUL (or
a XUL-like language) and create rich client behaviour over a browser
(ideally in JavaScript / DHTML, but a small applet would also do fine).
Best references I found were around
Luxor and Thinlet (not quite XUL, but
I'm still opening my eyes).
What do you think, fellow bloggers? Am
I on the right track? Are there better alternatives? I'm looking for stuff
that is as standard as it can be, open source, active and
community-supported. Asking for too much? Missing something? Thanks for
any help.
I think XUL is a good choice. Learning is hard. Looking at the Mozilla Browser XUL and Javascript is the best. Kevin Burton's NewsMonster uses XUL overlays to become part of the Mozilla Browser. Studying NewsMonster shows how to use XUL and extend the browser.
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