A Swing rich client platform based on Eclipse OSGi and Spring IOC. Designed to simplify the architecture of large Swing applications. Originally developed for Xerto Imagery a image management application.
SPAR was developed as the platform for Imagery an Java swing image management application.
It was released as open source after Jasper Potts's Java One 2007 technical session on "Why Spaghetti is not Tasty - Architecting Large Scale Applications".
The session covered Rich Client Platforms in general and the problems involved in developing large scale swing applications.
For the session slides and project updates keep an on Jasper Potts's Blog.
Build Instructions:
There are two ways to build and run the Spar Demo. If you have IntelliJ then you can just open the provided IntelliJ project and hit
run, otherwise you can use Ant. Here are the instructions to get the demo and build and run it with Ant:
Prerequisites: Java 5 or 6, recent Apache Ant and a Subversion Client
Get the code from Subversion repository using your client, if you are using the command line then type this: svn checkout https://spar.dev.java.net/svn/spar/trunk/code spar --username {username} where {username} is your dev.java.net login.
cd into spar/spardemo
To build type: ant -f build-scripts/build.xml
To run type: ant -f build-scripts/build.xml run
The spar demo app at the moment is a very simple app that just brings up a UI with one of each of the main UI
component types: SidePanels, Documents, Menus,Toolbars and Statusbars. As soon as I get time I will put some more work
into making it a fully fledged simple application using the event bus and all the core functionality of the SPAR platform.
It uses the JIDE docking framework at the moment though a abstraction layer, I have made a start on making a InfoNode plugin
that will provide a alternative implementation.
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