Sierra

A previewer for Sierra which is an XML based DSL for Java Swing (not by me, but by Greg Brown) https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra I like the ability to declare UIs and the layout manager that Sierra has is the only sane layout manager for Swing I have worked with

Added an example demonstrating how to add an action listener to a button: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s... I'm not sure it's exactly what you were looking for, but hopefully it is similar enough.

Agreed. I said as much in my response to this issue that was opened the other day: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/issues/12

Great question. You can do this with a cell consumer (i.e. the with() method). See OrientationTest for an example (e.g. leftToRightButton, rightToLeftButton): https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s... I should probably add a better example.

This looks really cool. Applying a thin layer over parts of the standard library is a very good idea IMO. Reduces the dependency tree but a lot. One question (my Swing knowledge is at least 15 years old!): what's the simplest way to handle events using this? Eg taking the FormTest [1] example, how might one simply bind a model object to the UI elements? [1] https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s...

Yes, I know hardly anyone uses Swing anymore. :-) I basically just did it for fun and thought I would share.