sexta-feira, 17 de outubro de 2008

Novo framework RIA liberado


Dia 15 de outubro foi liberada a versão 1.o do framework Pivot Toolkit para desenvolvimento de aplicações ricas para internet (RIA). Este toolkit começou como um projeto desenvolvido pela VMWare, e acabou se transformando em uma aplicação open-source. 

Não cheguei a testar este framework, mas achei bem interessante.

Segundo o site oficial, as novidades da versão 1.0 são as seguintes:

The Pivot development team is happy to announce the relase of Pivot 1.0. This release includes a number of improvements over the preview release announced in June, many of which were proposed or built by developers who joined the project after the initial announcement:

  • A new, optimized WTKX loader that uses StAX rather than DOM to parse the XML source
  • A new package supporting visual effects and animated transitions
  • Improved localization support that allows developers to define resources using hierarchical, UTF-8 based JSON files rather than flat, ISO 8859 Java properties files
  • New components:
    • Menus, menu bars, and menu buttons
    • Spinners
    • Mac OSX-like property sheets
    • Google Maps-like panorama-style scroll panes
    • Tool palette windows
  • A new charting library based on JFreeChart that is fully integrated with Pivot's data model classes
  • Support for custom color schemes in the default "Terra" look and feel package
  • "Pivot Explorer", a Firebug-like debugging tool
  • Improved documentation
  • Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements

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