Riena Milestone 3 ships new UI for RCP applications
The Eclipse Riena team quietly shipped M3 last week. This is a notable milestone for us because it is the first to include the "business-process oriented UI and navigation" that Riena is advocating as an alternative to the default workbench layout.
So what is Riena?
For a full description read the Riena proposal.
Some aspects of Riena that I find interesting: It tries to provide a simple UI-metaphor that caters more to the needs of business users. It tries to pave the road for UI-developers by providing high-level APIs for common UI programming tasks like using the data binding, rule-based validation and UI-markers (see screenshot).
To try it out, go to the Riena Getting Started page to grab Milestone 3. Note that M3 is still based on Eclipse 3.3. The screenshot above is from the "SWT Example Application" in org.eclipse.riena.example.client.
Progress is being made rapidly, so expect more interesting stuff to come in the next milestones.
Regards,
Elias.
1 comment:
Many enterprise applications use the metaphors of screens, a collection of (functionally similiar) views. Views contain one or more applets related to an object of the relational DB model.
E.g. Order Screen contains Order List View with list and details applet.
It would be nice to see something like this in Rienna- especially including access control mechanisms for login, ui element (and data) access.
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