SwiX^ml, 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.

Depending on the application, XML descriptors may be deployed
with the remaining code or loaded from a remote server at
runtime. This late binding of the GUI has many advantages.
Enabling features in an application based on a license code or a
user's role does not have to be hard coded anymore. Instead
an XML document describing the application's GUI could be
dynamically loaded.

Generating the GUI based on descriptors also has some of the
advantages that code generators provide, but without generating
the non-maintainable code.

While SwiX^ml doesn't free the
developer from knowing the javax.swing package, it
reduces the amount of repetitive, sometimes error prone, and
often complex GUI related code.

Constructing a User Interface based on XML documents is not a
totally new idea. Projects like target="_blank">Thinlet, XUL, XULUX, Jelly, and SwingML, to
name a few, have successfully proven this concept.

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  SwiX^ml differentiates itself from the rest by
  focusing completely on javax.swing.
  


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  Programmers who know Swing already can immediately start
  writing descriptors. No additional XML dialect has to be
  learned: Class names translate into tag names and method
  names into attribute names.
  


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  SwiX^ml is faster since no additional layers had to
  be added on top of the Swing objects.
  


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  SwiX^ml is smaller. Despite the fact that the
  swixml jar file is only about 40 Kbyte in size, almost all of
  the infamous Swing objects are supported.
  


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  SwiX^ml does Java Swing GUI generation and that is
  all. The dynamic behavior of the user interface, defining the
  application's business rules, has to be coded in Java.