You should check out the Buoy project http://buoy.sf.net/, it aims to be the 10% of Swing that you need 90% of the time. Its got a great event model as well.
BuoyBuilder uses XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder. And it also lets you persist actions, so you don't need the glue code to set up actions after loading the UI. You can do this in one of two ways: (1) you can actually include the object that is the target of the action in the XML file (by making your class available to BuoyBuilder) or (2) you can provide a proxy to the object that will be the target, and provide the instance when loading the UI (or more properly the persisted object graph).
If you report some bugs maybe they would get fixed AC. We are quite willing to fix anything that has been reported, but as of yet, nothing has been reported.
That's why its release as open source as well, so you can have all the source yourself should something happen to it. Or the community at large could keep it going.
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At the risk of getting blasted for slashvertising, BuoyBuilder also loads UIs with a single line of code.
You should check out the Buoy project http://buoy.sf.net/, it aims to be the 10% of Swing that you need 90% of the time. Its got a great event model as well.
BuoyBuilder uses XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder. And it also lets you persist actions, so you don't need the glue code to set up actions after loading the UI. You can do this in one of two ways: (1) you can actually include the object that is the target of the action in the XML file (by making your class available to BuoyBuilder) or (2) you can provide a proxy to the object that will be the target, and provide the instance when loading the UI (or more properly the persisted object graph).
If you report some bugs maybe they would get fixed AC. We are quite willing to fix anything that has been reported, but as of yet, nothing has been reported.
That's why its release as open source as well, so you can have all the source yourself should something happen to it. Or the community at large could keep it going.
It is also available as Open Source, where it's free as in software.