> From: Warner Onstine <
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> Date: February 18, 2006 12:44:18 PM MST
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> Subject: whatever happened to franklin?
>
> Last week at our JUG one of our members presented on building Swing
> apps using Spring to declare all the beans, and of course this
> immediately reminded me of SwiXML. After the preso we had our standard
> Q&A session and one of our member brought up the real problem with
> building GUIs is having to deal with all the xml and how much he
> enjoyed using Theodore (although not necessarily Thinlets), this of
> course reminded me of Franklin so I decided to go looking again at the
> old carlsbadcubes site to see if any update had been given and I can't
> find a reference to it anymore.
>
> Is Franklin dead? Or just in seclusion somewhere?
>
> After seeing Matisse I'm anxious to hear if any progress was being
> made on Franklin, because (and I"m not alone here) I would rather have
> my code in something that is easy to move around (xml, say) than a
> binary or even Java format (xml is much easier to transform). Just
> thought I'd check in and see what was going on.
>
> Although I haven't used SwiXML, I know others who love it, so thanks
> Wolf!
>
> -warner
