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Almost the same question has been asked a year ago, but the there has been some new development in this area.
Selecting a (data binding) framework for swing application seems to be quite difficult. JSR-295 is abandoned, many swing frameworks which provide binding are work-in-progress, abandoned or too heavy for my quite simple app. JGoodies Swing suite is expensive, but luckily its libraries are free.
Has anyone any real-world experience of new UFaceKit. It looks promising, but quite immature. I am particularly interested in Swing implementation and documentation. Any insight on UFaceKits development schedule would be appreciated, because I can hold by framework choice for a while. Requirements are not anything fancy, just working binding with a nice API.
I also found Mogwai dataBinding, but it seems quite incomplete and requires manual synchronization activation, which makes it useless compared to coarse grained synchronization easily written by hand.
Incomplete frameworks include at least Spring RCP and many JSR-296 forks.
So, is the JGoodies data binding really the only realistic choice? Or are there any other viable solutions available?
Edit:
This question seems to rank quite high in google and the accepted answer reflects the time question was originally asked. Anyone who seeks to build new swing application that uses databinding should check all the answers, they have information about latest progress in this area.
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Data binding is the process that establishes a connection between an application's UX (view) and the data being presented (model). Suppose the binding has the correct settings and the data provides the proper notifications; when the data changes its value, the elements bound to the data reflect changes automatically.
In a data binding process, each data change is reflected automatically by the elements that are bound to the data. The term data binding is also used in cases where an outer representation of data in an element changes, and the underlying data is automatically updated to reflect this change.
Originally distributed as a separately downloadable library, Swing has been included as part of the Java Standard Edition since release 1.2. The Swing classes and components are contained in the javax. swing package hierarchy.
Data binding can also mean that if an outer representation of the data in an element changes, then the underlying data can be automatically updated to reflect the change. For example, if the user edits the value in a TextBox element, the underlying data value is automatically updated to reflect that change.
BBB (pretty much the official fork of JSR 295) works just fine.
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The Beanfabrics framework contains some sort of data binding. In fact it is an implementation of the Presentation Model pattern: http://code.google.com/p/beanfabrics/
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