| Development: Editor Libraries
Editor Libraries
Overview
Libraries used by the permis editor.
The following table lists these tools along with the versions,
homepages and licensing information.
List of Tools
Editor Libraries
Details
The following section lists detail information for each of the
libraries.
Please refer to the corresponding
tool.xml
description in the tool directory for further information.
The
JSR-296
Swing Application Framework prototype implementation is a small
set of Java classes that simplify building desktop applications.
The prototype provides infrastructure that's common to most
desktop applications:
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Application lifecyle, notably GUI startup and shutdown.
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Support for managing and loading resources, like strings,
formatted messages, images, colors, fonts, and other types
common to desktop applications.
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Support for defining, managing, and binding Actions, including
Actions that run asynchronously (in the "background").
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Persistent session state: support for automatically and
selectively saving GUI state from one run of an application to
the next.
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Version: |
1.0.3
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Homepage: |
https://appframework.dev.java.net/
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License: |
Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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Requires: |
SwingWorker 1.2
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In essence, Beans Binding (JSR 295) is about keeping two properties (typically of two objects) in sync. An additional emphasis is placed on the ability to bind to Swing components.
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Version: |
1.2.1
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Homepage: |
https://beansbinding.dev.java.net
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License: |
Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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DockingFrames is an open source Java Swing docking framework.
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Version: |
1.0.7.6c
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Homepage: |
http://dock.javaforge.com/
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License: |
LGPL 2.1
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dom4j
dom4j is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the
Java platform using the Java Collections Framework and with full support for DOM, SAX
and JAXP.
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Version: |
1.6.1
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Homepage: |
http://www.dom4j.org/dom4j-1.6.1/index.html
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License: |
BSD style license
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JGoodies Forms
The JGoodies Forms framework helps you lay out and implement elegant Swing panels quickly
and consistently. It makes simple things easy and the hard stuff possible, the good design
easy and the bad difficult.
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Version: |
1.2.1
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Homepage: |
http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/libraries.html
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License: |
BSD
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Jaxen
Jaxen is an open source XPath library written in Java. It is adaptable to many different
object models, including DOM, XOM, dom4j, and JDOM. Is it also possible to write
adapters that treat non-XML trees such as compiled Java byte code or Java beans as XML,
thus enabling you to query these trees with XPath too.
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Version: |
1.1.1
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Homepage: |
http://jaxen.codehaus.org/index.html
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License: |
Apache-style
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FamFamFam Silk Icons
Silk is a smooth, free large set of 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format.
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Version: |
1.3
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Homepage: |
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
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License: |
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
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Swing Layout Extensions goal is to make it easy to create professional cross platform layouts with Swing.
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Version: |
1.0.3
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Homepage: |
https://swing-layout.dev.java.net/
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License: |
Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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When writing a multi-threaded application using Swing, there are
two constraints to keep in mind:
(refer to
How to Use Threads
for more details):
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Time-consuming tasks should not be run on the
Event Dispatch Thread.
Otherwise the application becomes unresponsive.
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Swing components should be accessed on the
Event Dispatch Thread only.
These constraints mean that a GUI application with time intensive
computing needs at least two threads: 1) a thread to perform the lengthy
task and 2) the
Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) for all GUI-related
activities. This involves inter-thread communication which can be
tricky to implement.
SwingWorker is designed for situations where you need to have a long
running task run in a background thread and provide updates to the UI
either when done, or while processing.
This project is a backport of
SwingWorker included into 1.6.
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Version: |
1.2
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Homepage: |
https://swingworker.dev.java.net/
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License: |
Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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SwingLab's SwingX provides a powerful suite of desktop components for all your Swing
projects. Available under the LGPL license, the SwingX project is the perfect match for
both your professional and personal projects.
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Version: |
0.9.4
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Homepage: |
http://swinglabs.org/
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License: |
Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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Requires: |
SwingWorker 1.2
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