JMatter: Great Looking Swing Front-ends for Your DB Back-ends
JMatter is a software framework for constructing workgroup business applications
based on the Naked Objects Architectural Pattern.
By following this pattern developers concentrate efforts in the domain
and leave the common and generic taks to the framework, like
persistence, ui scaffolding, reporting; in a similar way as the
(G)Rails frameworks do for web applications. JMatter uses Swing as main
view technology, allowing developers to experience the productivity
acceleration of (G)Rails on the desktop.
A new release of the JMatter framework has been announced.
This release includes many interesting features like
- A Quicksilver (MacOsX) or Gnome-do (Linux) interface for quick command invocation
- Per command icons, great addition to the quicksilver interface
- Map support through swingx-ws, you can map any domain class that follows the conventions to be mappable
- Support "legacy' database schemas, in other words your domain adjusts to a previously existing db
- JMatter Application Browser (early stages), think of it as an application hub, capable of downloading, installing and managing JMatter applications on the host machine
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Alejandro Dobniewski replied on Wed, 2008/02/06 - 8:03am
Eitan Suez replied on Wed, 2008/02/06 - 4:58pm
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Alejandro Dobniewski
the live webstart demo is somewhat old. i need to update it to use the latest version of jmatter. the dynamic look and feel change was removed from the ui. the jmatter ui can be set to use any valid swing look and feel on startup. thanks.
Eitan Suez replied on Thu, 2008/02/07 - 2:31pm
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Eitan Suez
fyi..
i published an updated copy of the contact manager demo application that uses the latest version of the framework (and updated the link at http://jmatter.org/pages/jwsdemo )
the direct link to the jnlp file is: http://jmatter.org/CMgr/project.jnlp
with this one, you should be able to try out the visual command interface (bound to ctrl-i kbdshortcut)
thanks, / eitan