XML User Interface

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XML User Interface
Stable release
3.2 / February 8, 2008 (2008-02-08)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type GUI
License Mozilla Public License
Website www.xoetrope.com/xui

XML User Interface (XUI) is a Java and XML framework for building rich client, desktop and mobile applications. The framework can save much of the code typically needed to build an application with consequent savings in development time, maintenance costs and hence results in greater stability.

XML Markup language developed by the W3C for encoding of data

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The W3C's XML 1.0 Specification and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML.

In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. A software framework provides a standard way to build and deploy applications. A software framework is a universal, reusable software environment that provides particular functionality as part of a larger software platform to facilitate development of software applications, products and solutions. Software frameworks may include support programs, compilers, code libraries, tool sets, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that bring together all the different components to enable development of a project or system.

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The framework supports data binding, event handling, validation and includes a NetBeans plug-in for interactive creation of the user interface. The project also features some innovative features such as an implementation of the new synth Look and Feel using SVG plus an interactive layout manager using guidelines.

In computer programming, data binding is a general technique that binds data sources from the provider and consumer together and synchronizes them. This is usually done with two data/information sources with different languages as in XML data binding. In UI data binding, data and information objects of the same language but different logic function are bound together.

XML validation is the process of checking a document written in XML to confirm that it is both well-formed and also "valid" in that it follows a defined structure. A well-formed document follows the basic syntactic rules of XML, which are the same for all XML documents. A valid document also respects the rules dictated by a particular DTD or XML schema. Automated tools – validators – can perform well-formedness tests and many other validation tests, but not that that require human judgement, such as correct application of a schema to a data set.

NetBeans integrated development environment

NetBeans is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. NetBeans allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. NetBeans runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris. In addition to Java development, it has extensions for other languages like PHP, C, C++, HTML5, and JavaScript. Applications based on NetBeans, including the NetBeans IDE, can be extended by third party developers.

The XUI framework is released under the Mozilla Public License and can be downloaded free of charge.

The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open source software license developed and maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. It is a weak copyleft license, characterized as a middle ground between permissive free software licenses and the GNU General Public License (GPL), that seeks to balance the concerns of proprietary and open source developers.

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