IBM has updated its well known Reflexive User Interface Builder for constructing and rendering graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Java Swing and Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) based upon a descriptive XML document. Version 1.1 includes the capacity to validate Eclipse SWT GUIs, generate Java source for GUIs constructed by RIB, and embed Java source code in RIB documents. See new developer article on RIB that shows you how to Build Java GUIs simply and quickly.
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How easy is it really to design GUIs with descriptive XML?
Perhaps this is a better solution than the Visual GUI Designer of Eclipse (the exact plugin name I can’t remember) which doesn’t hold a candle to Glade.
I’ve not checked this tool yet, but i think a good thing would be having the Eclipse’s Visual Editor generating this stuff…
http://xswt.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xswt/home
XSWT is an XML-based page-description language for SWT layouts.
Seriously, I’ve never heard of this tool even though I checked out plenty of them some months ago. I ended up using cookSwing instead because it was rather easy to extend for my own needs.
As to the “Visual GUI Designer” for Eclipse… after I noticed how slow it actually is and that it had problems updating the code, I dumped that plugin.