UIDL 1.3 (Default branch) |
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UIDL aims to create a scriptable, JavaScript based
language for expressing complex user interfaces.
The main features of a UIDL page are the ability
to create complex user interfaces (using Swing
based widgets) and to communicate asynchronously
with server based objects (using the JSON-RPC
protocol). While this may sound similar to AJAX,
the implementation is much cleaner thanks to the
ability to natively instantiate complex UI
components within the browser and the ability to
transparently present server based objects via
their JavaScript proxies.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
JSON-RPC remoting was simplified by enhancing
client functionality. Remote interfaces are no
longer required as proxy objects are automatically
constructed from exposed meta-data (by calling
"browser.createProxyObjects"). Due to the
simplified native JSON-RPC support, support for
Spring RPC and JavaScript based JSON-RPC is now
deprecated. The build files were reorganized so
that common libraries don't need to be packaged
twice (for compile time and runtime). This reduces
the overall distribution size.
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