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Mark Derricutt wrote:

> Have you had a look at the new GUI layout designer that comes with the new
> EAP releases of IntelliJ IDEA?
> 
> It's quite a drastic shift from anything that other IDE's have been doing.
> 
> a) It uses its own layout manager
> b) Form layouts are stored in XML
> [...]
> 
> What you end up with is a class that only has fields you want to use
> declared, and any logic code, keeping the layout code separate ( which has
> also been a pet hate of Swing/AWT ).
> 
> It reminds me more of Delphi's way of handling .DFM files, only you don't
> need to have hundreds of TLabel/JLabels declared in your classes.

It also sounds a bit like "Foam":

   http://www.computersinmotion.com/foamdemos/foamdemo_FoamIntro.htm

Personally, I'm hoping that JBuilder will
adopt a Designer which uses the XMLEncoding
facility, and offers a user experience more
akin to NeXT/Apple's Interface Builder.
That represents absolute, inviolable separation
of view from controller and model.

   http://developer.apple.com/tools/interfacebuilder/


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