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XWT

Xml Windowing Toolkit - light-weight UI building and distribution over the web.

Two months ago, I read about XWT. I filed it for future reference. I think it is a really good fit for delivering good UIs from web services. As is explained in the tutorial, it really takes only 15 minutes to make a TicTacToe client!

If you need to make rich UIs for web applications, this might be a really good solution.

The project page seems to favour Java on the server side. It doesn’t matter, if you have an XML-RPC/SOAP service implemented in any other technology.

Since Zope has an XML-RPC server available by default, XWT gives me some ideas, like an integrated search box that collects information from various search services.

What I would *really* like to see is if I can use this to quickly build UIs that can call Java functions in a jar or class file, without having to use web services. When I develop software, I really like to develop and test the core logic first (command line invocation is fine); and then, build a GUI on top of it.

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