Get rich quick with XUI and SugarCRM XUI and Carousel can be used to speed up and enhance the capabilities of a typical browser based application. Taking the popular open source business application, SugarCRM, we will illustrate some of the advantages of using a rich-client framework

Carousel Components Demo, First Looks The Carousel Components Demo is a webstartable demo of some of the user interface components in the Carousel Suite. Carousel is a commercial extension to the open source XUI platform sponsored by Xoetrope.

What's new in version 2.0.6 Although as point release v2.0.6 of XUI is largely a collection of fixes and tweaks some new features are included. The following article describes some of these new features.

Sudoku with XUI This simple demo illustrates many of the techniques for developing XUI applications and provides a less serious way of learning them. What's more the end result is a fully functional application which can be deployed as an applet or an application.

XUI meets eBay Today eBay is one of the highest profile web service providers with a massive base of active users. Hitching a ride on this juggernaut of e-commerce we will demonstrate how the XUI framework can be used in conjunction with the eBay SDK to build powerful applications.

XUI rencontre eBay Aujourd'hui eBay est un des plus grands fournisseurs de service web avec autant d'utilisateurs actifs. Accrochant un wagon sur cette locomotive d'e-commerce, nous allons démontrer comment le frameworks de XUI peut être employé pour développer des applications puissantes. L'article détaillera également les avantages qu'un framework riche apportent à une plateforme de service web et nous montrerons comment XUI peut aider à résoudre certains les problèmes d'utilisation les plus ennuyants liés aux applications web.

Adding Components The last version of XUI introduced the component registry as a way of adding new component types to XUI. Now we have added extended this support for the registry. The XuiEditor can now load components from any Jar, not just those conforming to the Beans API. This article describes both how to use the new editor features and how to build and register a custom component.

Using the GuideLayout outside of XUI The guide layout is also designed for use outside of the XuiEdiotr and the XUI framework.

See how Carousel routing can transform and persist your XUI data Get a preview of the routing technology which will be available in Carousel. Routing plugs directly into your existing XUI application and can take care of everyday tasks such as session management and user authentication.

Library Functions New library support in XUI 2.0 allows further separation of UI and business logic. Attributes and events no longer need to be implemented in classes derived from XPage. The new support even opens up the possibility of embedding support for scripting engines.

Introducing the Guide Layout Use guides to simplify creation of flexible page layouts. Inspired by Desktop Publishing the guides make can be used with a minimum of effort and programmer intervention. Support for the guides is built into the NetBeans plug-in. Say goodbye to the GridBag!

Screenshots showing upcoming features of XUI and Carousel See some of what's in XUI. This document shows just a few of the new features in action. Some of the new features in Carousel are also illustrated.

New Widgets Sets on the way: SWT and HTML We are preparing for extensions to the XUI platform and support for new widget sets. While these widget sets won't make it into the final release of XUI 2.0 we are including the basic mechanisms to support alternative UIs.

Synth + SVG gives XUI a nice feel See how we use SVG and the Synth Look and Feel to nice effect. With the combination you can get some great visual effects like translucent buttons, sophisticated backgrounds and animated effects such as rollovers.