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Home My Photo Blog (Moblog) Observations Java Hot Products Books/Knowledge Devices Operators Mobile Messaging My Courses My Profile My ideas/thoughts Techno Vision Blogroll Me! Join Paul's mail list	Sunday, June 22, 2003   :: Very neat utility for XUL interfaces on mobile devices :: Thinlet is a GUI toolkit, a single Java class, that parses the hierarchy and properties of the GUI, handles user interaction, and calls business logic. It separates the graphic presentation (described in an XML file) and the application methods (written as Java code). The GUI description is XML User-interface Language, XUL (apparently prounced "zool", rhyming with "cool"). XULPlanet has a tutorial on XUL. The really great part is that the Thinlet toolkit supports MIDP, so there is a chance to play around with some interesting mobile interface ideas, not that I've tried any yet, just played around with XUL via the fabulous Thinlet authoring tool Theodore. Playing around with the Theodore tool is a great way to learn, or at least appreciate, the power and potential benefits of XUL. You can give it whirl by trying the evaluation copy online (but note that you need to have Java Web Start installed to do this). You can try out the Thinlet class via some interesting web demos on the Thinlet website, including one that uses the Amazon Web Services API. 2:18:49 PM    comment []   © Copyright 2003 Paul Golding. Last update: 7/24/2003; 10:41:26 PM.	June 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30           May   Jul Sign up to my email list - Send me email Available for hire as consultant via Magic E Company who can also develop software for you. Consult my booklist on Amazon Blogroll: