Available Features in eFace
eFace is a platform-independent and technology-neutral presentation framework. It provides a consistent programming model for building applications and provides a clear separation between the UI and the business logic. An eFace application can be deployed on the desktop or hosted in a web browser. It also enables richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of applications
Regard to the development method, same as WPF, eFace supports two ways to create UI elements :
1. Static creation - Loading UI elements from XAML files
This solution should be used in most of cases. It presents a lot of benifices than programming solution such as UI modification without application rebuild, possible to be changed via a visual designer by no-software engineer or directly by end-users, window generation during the execution, window generation based on template, patch modification of resource files by a program, etc.
2. Dynamic creation - Using the UPF API
This solution is very similary to traditional programming on Swing or SWT. This solution is in general rarely used. It could be helpful in some complexe trigger contexts to change dynamically the UI appareance and behaviors.
eFace has supported the following main components of WPF (click on the link title to get in details) :
- XAML Fundamentals
Rich markup language for declarative application programming.
- Controls
A rich library of controls that support user interface (UI) development.
- Data binding
Data binding provides a simple and consistent way for applications to present and interact with data. Elements can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of Java objects and XML.
- Internationalization and Localization
Extensive support for the development of world-ready applications.
The Documents and Graphics and Multimedia are not yet available.
Please visit Microsoft MSDN Web for detail information about XAML and WPF.
