Thursday, April 03, 2008

Glimmer Eclipse Project Creation Review

You've heard about Glimmer:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/glimmer-jruby-swt
http://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2007/11/glimmering-philosophy.html
http://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2007/12/listeners-in-glimmer.html
http://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2007/12/glimmers-built-in-data-binding-syntax.html
http://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2008/02/table-data-binding-and-mvp-in-glimmer.html

shell {
  text "JRuby on SWT"
  composite {
    label {
      text "Hello World!"
    }
  }
}

You've seen Glimmer in action at EclipseCon 2008:
http://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2008/03/glimmer-at-eclipsecon-2008.html
http://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2008/04/first-glimmer-game.html



And finally, Glimmer is proposed as an Eclipse Technology Project with the Creation Review scheduled on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 at 1600 UTC:
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/glimmer/

If you appreciate the ideas behind Glimmer, and would like to see it grow, or would like to become a part of the project by contributing your own ideas or code, feel free to express your interest by joining the Creation Review call-in meeting on April 16th at 11AM CT (GMT -06:00).

I will be presenting some slides to review the purpose of Glimmer, where it is now, and where it is going in the future.

2 comments:

KetanPadegaonkar said...

I'd be very much interested in this tool!

On another note, have you looked at a similar tool for Swing apps?

http://swiby.codehaus.org/

James said...

Hi Andy
You've got a really interesting project with Glimmer. I'm Zone Leader at JavaLobby and EclipseZone. Getting an "Intro To Glimmer" article would be brilliant, and could eventually become a series. Would you be interested in posting some articles for us?
You can contact me back on my dzone email address: james at dzone dot com

Regards
James