Web pages + AJAX = Swing + GroupLayout

Two new technologies, AJAX and GroupLayout, have brought Web Pages and Swing close enought that an application need not concern itself with the type of client being used. And as we are developing an application platform, it would be foolish then to do otherwise--the risk would be to develop a platform that is obsolete before it is ready for production!

I'm finally off to a good start on the Swing. Much of the header is now being displayed (including a table of classifier entities) and command input is fully functional. Because GroupLayout allows me to take an approach where the GUI components are composed based on the XML content to be displayed this will proceed much like the work on events: a slow start, a moderately long middle and then a quick finish. By the end of the weekend a lot of the Swing client may just be usable. :-)

Cheers!

Bill