Apache Pivot 2.0 Released

I am pleased to announce the release of Apache Pivot 2.0. Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs) in Java. This major update includes a number of significant enhancements including: Support for dynamic data binding Pivot 1.5 and earlier supported data binding via a load/store model that maps well to client/server applications such as REST clients. However, a more dynamic model, where a property of a target element is automatically updated whenever a source value changes, is also useful in many circumstances. Pivot 2.0 adds support for declaratively creating such dynamic binding relationships as well as the ability to define them in code. For example, the following markup creates a binding association between a page variable named myText and the text property of a Label instance. Any time the value of myText changes, the value of the label#039;s text property is also updated: Default properties Classes can now specifiy a default property using the new @DefaultProperty annotation. For example, the org.apache.pivot.wtk.Window class declares a default property of content, making the element in markup optional. Taking advantage of default properties can significantly reduce the verbosity (and indent depth) of BXML (formerly called WTKX) markup. Serializer events The JSONSerializer, CSVSerializer, and XMLSerializer classes allow a...

Date: January, 19 2011
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/2011/01/19/apache-pivot-20-released

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