JGears

Welcome to JGears

JGears is a framework for building application's front-end based on component model. The architecture of the main elements of the framework has been made to be independent of the rendering engines and even of the platforms, so you can use the whole interface design units of your applications again, if you just want to use the next state-of-the-art UI platform. Once, written in the portable xml format the faces of your application could be rendered as html, swing, pdf and others. For JGears it is a challenge to specify not only the format of the component, library, draft and application descriptors, which should be flexible enough, but also the behavior of this new type of application, which must be comparable no matter of the underlying rendering engine.

The main goals of JGears are:
1.To unify and standardize a common behavior of the UI layer of the applications (across standalone, web, multi-layered, etc.)
2.To define the set of the core entities and their functionality.
3.To specify common formats for UI component definitions and models.
4.To standardize the main set of the common UI components – theirs properties, methods and events.
5.To provide a set of tools for RAD.