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While Adobe, Microsoft, and Google\/HTML5\/Mozilla are battling it out to capture the UI-space of the 2010’s (how are you supposed to say “2010’s”? “The teens”?), there are a handful of other efforts to provide a post-Ajax UI layer. The Apache Pivot<\/a> project, now in incubation, is one I came across recently. Essentially, the Pivot team – mostly from VMWare – have been working on Java-based GUI UI from the ground-up.<\/p>\n

Pivot Overview<\/h2>\n

Rather than use existing (and much despised by all – see JavaFX) Java GUI toolkits like AWT or Swing, they specify their own UI markup language (WTKX), which then sits directly on-top of Java2D and other GUI widgetry to render UIs. Thrown into this mix are concerns for web-based networking (like running in the browser’s Java plugin and providing server side components for data access), and you essentially have a framework for what we’d call a “Rich Internet Application” (RIA) now-a-days, minus the video. I’m always more into the UI- rather than the video-side of RIAs, so that’s really no issue for me.<\/p>\n

Architecture, etc.<\/h2>\n

Pivot is divided into a few broad buckets:<\/p>\n