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WebonSwing Framework

WebOnSwing is the easiest way to create web pages and sites, you can render html pages with Swing components, using html templates to separate perfectly look&feel and logic.

You can map your Swing based applications to html web pages, using exactly the same source code for both contexts. Also you can use the provided new layout managers to make your web pages look professional.

This web application framework constructs and handles html pages with Swing components, allowing to use MVC architecture and all the facilities provided by Swing in the Web.

In addition it provides a template system that allows to totally separate the view from logic and easily interchange the different views without touching absolutely nothing of code, facilitating the interaction of the designer and the developer, the use of skins, etc.

The development process is much simpler, first Swing windows are implemented which interacts with the business logic and model; and once its behavior is proven we have to specialize the view for web. This process includes, among other things, the use of html templates, the persistence of data through successive requests (in session or keeping the state within the page), the development of renderers for new components (if it is necessary), and can be added custom javascript so that it handles client side events, associating them to server Swing events, handling of styles, etc.

It has a window manager that allows the use of modal windows transparently, allowing in addition to keep the stack of windows and each one state within the html page, to be able to reconstruct navigation completely, with no need to maintain any data in the server session.

Another interesting feature is the capacity to refresh components, that allows to update single parts of the page which have changed from last request, remarkably lowering to the traffic of the sucesive requirements, increasing the speed of page responses. And in addition using the automatic refreshment feature it is possible to simulate the behavior of a desktop application from web, obtaining the differences of the view by periodics polling from client side to server.

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