• Zvon's XSLT tutorial
• Zvon's XSLT language ref

DuckySebastianSukesh539dProjectUpdate

Paper outline

• Lit review
• Tools review
  • not doing Java output
• Possible approaches to problem
  • straight LTW -- wasted a lot of time, not an option => must have wrapper -> must create wrappers, must change all swix code to call the wrappers
  • different class for each instance
  • different dummy method for each instance
  • have pointcuts driven by the arguments

• • Find XML dialects and tools SE
  • Evaluate XML dialects and tools, including evaluating how Java/AspectJ gets plugged in and whether or not there is a GUI that will dump that output SE (farming out work to KDS and SC as possible)

• • Eclipse KDS SE SC
  • XML tools -- e.g. parser -- to be determined KDS SE SC

• • • Publish contact information KDS SE SC

• • • Get on wiki SE SC (KDS help)

• Hand-code one small example in AspectJ KDS SE SC -- to be done collectively on Sat 25 Feb

• • Good XUL engine. But you have to define actions in your java code. There seems to exist to write some kind of scripts to extend the XML language, but I do not know how it works exactly. -- SE

• • Find XML dialects and tools SS
  • Evaluate XML dialects and tools, including evaluating how Java/AspectJ gets plugged in and whether or not there is a GUI that will dump that output SS (farming out work to KDS and SC as possible)
  • Present the different dialects/tools and recommend a dialect SS
  • Choose a tool/language

• Luxor -- XUL toolkit
  • looks like it interprets XUL, but XUL might be a good starting point. (Is there a graphical XUL builder?) -- kds
  • Good XUL engine. But you have to define actions in your java code. There seems to exist to write some kind of scripts to extend the XML language, but I do not know how it works exactly. -- ss

• Java Gui Builder (JGB) XML to Java --
  • minimal documentation, minimal activity, stuff looks abandoned -- kds
  • registration of ActionListeners in the XML-file possible but for object like buttons etc. there is a limited number of predefined attributes available. I prefer not to use it.

• • Like XUL but I found no possibility of writing scripts.(Do we need that at all?) Has in my opinion a good documentation but you have to fire your events completely in your javacode.(is that bad?)

• jxul very poor documentated but it seems alright. However there is no reason why to prefer it to luxor. -- ss
• thinlet -- similar to swixml, however swing is not requiered (according to their documentation). Since they use an event-model, I’m wondering how it works.
• gui4j - event handling is integrated more into XML than in Luxor, but you still have to fire events in java code, so this feature is a little bit weird and useless to my opinion. The number of attributes for objects is limited so that I do not want to work with it!
• Koala -- seems not to be build on Swing, because they describe javaBeans all the time. So that it won’t work for our project

1. Using Mixins to Build Flexible Widgets, Adam Brown, Richard Cardone, Sean McDirmid and Calvin Lin, pages 76-85 in AOSD-2002.
2. Christian Prehofer. Feature interactions in statechart diagrams or graphical composition of components. In Kand´e et al. Second International Workshop on Aspect-Oriented

• • Find XML dialects and tools SS
  • Evaluate XML dialects and tools, including evaluating how Java/AspectJ gets plugged in and whether or not there is a GUI that will dump that output SS (farming out work to KDS and SC as possible)
  • Present the different dialects/tools and recommend a dialect SS

• • AspectJ SC SS KDS
  • Eclipse KDS SS SC
  • XML tools -- e.g. parser -- to be determined KDS SS SC

• • • Get on wiki SS SC (KDS help)

• Hand-code one small example in AspectJ KDS SS SC -- to be done collectively on Sat 25 Feb

1. Using Mixins to Build Flexible Widgets, Adam Brown, Richard Cardone, Sean McDirmid and Calvin Lin, pages 76-85 in AOSD-2002.

1. Using Mixins to Build Flexible Widgets, Adam Brown, Richard Cardone,

• • Tutorial
  • overview

• mentions XML as aspect language?
• Aspect.NET?
• some yummy references on here
• IBM article on Aspects that shows how to do Decorator and Adapter patterns

• • Connect up to electricbagpipes CVS repository.
    • Read directions

• 26 Feb: Minimal application (e.g. one button) hand-coded in AspectJ; strategy for describing input code with XML settled on
• 5 Mar: Very minimal application translated and working

• • • You can install AspectJ from inside Eclipse.

• • Set up CVS repository KDS
    • Okay, this is done. Read directions at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu:8000/academics/courses/is255/f04/labs/lab090904/CVSHowTo/eclipseCvsHowTo.html
    • Use the servername, username, and password that I sent you earlier; path /home/duckys/cvsroot

• • • Figure out what is blocking sound on KDS home computer so Skype will work KDS

• Mitch Stuart, Java GUI Builders, 2005. Retrieved 5 February 2006. http://www.fullspan.com/articles/java-gui-builders.html
• Swing-Designers, Untitled, Retrieved 5 Febrary 2006. http://www.swing-designer.com/
• JFormDesigner, Retrieved 5 February 2006. http://www.jformdesigner.com/
• Computers In Motion, Computers In Motion, Retrieved 5 February 2006. http://www.computersinmotion.com/cgi-bin/homeframeload.pl?formname=products_foam
• NetBeans.org, Welcome to NetBeans, Retrieved 5 February 2006. http://www.netbeans.org/
• Eclipse.org, Visual Editor Project, Retrieved 5 February 2006. http://www.eclipse.org/vep/WebContent/main.php
• Richard S. Hall, Radical – Lightweight rapid application development, Retrieved 5 February 2006. http://radical.sourceforge.net/
• Abacus Open Source Foundation, AbaGuiBuilder, Retrieved 5 February 2006, http://www.openabacus.org/products.abaguibuilder.html

Academic literature

1. Hannemann, Jan and Kiczales, Gregor, Design Pattern Implementation in Java and AspectJ, OOPSLA ’02, Nov 4-8, 161-173, 2002, Seattle WA, 2002. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1052898.1052899
2. Garcia, Sant’Anna, et. Al., Modularizing design patterns with aspects: a quantitative study, Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented programming, Chicago, IL, 3-14, 2005. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1052898.1052899
3. Montiero, Miguel and Fernandes, Joao, Towards a catalog of aspect-oriented refactorings, Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented programming, Chicago, IL, 111-122, 2005. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1052898.1052908

Other related work

• JAC -- Java Aspect Components -- uses a GUI-builder that uses UML to create Swing code
• JOTM -- Java Open Transaction Manager

• • AspectJ SC SS KDS
    • You can install this from inside Eclipse.
    • Help->Welcome, click on What's New
    • click on New Updates
    • click the radio button for New Features to install
    • press the New Remote Site button
    • enter in http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/31/update
    • follow directions from there

GUI XML to AspectJ translator project

For this project, we will take an XML representation of a GUI plus some glue code and convert it to AspectJ SWING code.

Immediate tasks

• Develop expertise in XML SC

• Choose XML GUI language
  • Find XML variants SS
  • Evaluate XML variants, including evaluating how Java/AspectJ gets plugged in and whether or not there is a GUI that will dump that output SS
  • Present the different tools and recommend one SS

• Set up/install tools
  • AspectJ
  • Eclipse KDS SS SC
  • XML tools to be determined KDS SS SC
  • Set up CVS repository KDS?
  • Set up collaboration tools
    • Set up Skype SC
    • Figure out what is blocking sound on KDS home computer KDS
    • Publish contact information KDS SS SC
    • Make wiki page KDS
    • Get on wiki SS SC (KDS help)

• Hand-code one small example in AspectJ KDS SS SC

• Do academic literature review
  • XML GUIs KDS
  • Observer pattern KDS

• Develop schedule (all?)
  • come up with tasks
  • write up schedule

• Write proposal led by KDS

Resources

AspectJ

XML language resources

XML GUI resources and evaluations

• Luxor -- XUL toolkit -- looks like it interprets XUL, but XUL might be a good starting point. (Is there a graphical XUL builder?) -- kds
• jxmlguibuilder XML to Java: difficult documentation (in German), project looks abandoned
• Java Gui Builder (JGB) XML to Java -- minimal documentation, minimal activity, stuff looks abandoned
• SWI XML
• Glade -- builds XML, but presumes GTK widgets

These might or might not be useful -- some might have some dialect of XML as a output language

• List of Java GUI builders
• clear article on what it takes to GUIbuild
• jvider -- commercial
• Jigloo -- commercial

Schedule

• 20 Feb: Tools set up, XML dialect chosen, new proposal handed in (including schedule).
• 26 Feb: Minimal application hand-coded in AspectJ based on an XML description; strategy for incorporating code with XML settled on
• 5 Mar: Minimal application translated and working
• 12 Mar: check boxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, text entry, list boxes fully translatable and working
• 19 Mar: trees fully functional, last minute disasters
• 26 Mar: last-minute disasters, project writeup
• 3-5 Apr: Project presentation