Project Description
Gatonero is a framework for User Interface (UI) design. Quick, powerful and flexible, it’s a tool of choice for UI prototyping in the early stages of a bespoke software development cycle. It can also be used for the design of production user interfaces. Gatonero Java is a part of the Gatonero framework for fast and easy generation of Java GUI. Gatonero Java includes several rendering engines:
- Gatonero Swing: for Java Swing-based applications and applets
- Gatonero CE: for applications designed to run on PDAs
- Gatonero Mobile: for applications designed to run on mobile phones
- Gatonero HTML: for applications designed to run on web pages as servlets
Project concepts:
- The Gatonero framework relies on 2 core concepts: descriptors and rendering engines. Descriptors describe a user interface; at runtime, the rendering engine interprets these UI definitions and creates/updates the appropriate graphical UI components.
- The Gatonero framework implements a facade pattern: the rendering engine does not depend on (and knows nothing about) specific details of descriptors implementation and vice versa.
- The rendering process is based on a delegation pattern. The rendering engine delegates the rendering to renderer delegates. Renderer delegates are typically associated with component descriptor classes.
- Gatonero XML is used for the declarative definition of an application’s user interfaces.
Gatonero Java technology:
The Gatonero Java API is the core of the Gatonero Java technology. It defines a set of abstract, platform-independent UI concepts that are used to make up the definition of a user interface. GUIs created with the Gatonero Java framework can be deployed as:
- Standalone Java Swing applications (including via Java Webstart).
- Java applets on web pages.
- Java standalone applications on PDAs running Windows CE.
Management and resources:
- Timeline: May 2004 – May 2005
- Resources: project manager, a team of developers and testers
- Development methodology: Agile Scrum
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