Buoy 1.0
Buoy is an interesting public-domain wrapper for Swing. It uses reflection to let you create Cocoa-style connections between event generators and event handlers, without the cruft of using interfaces and anonymous adapter classes. For instance, the Java:
widget.addEventLink(ActionEvent.class, obj, "doSomething");
is loosely equivalent to the Objective-C:
[widget setTarget:obj]; [widget setAction:@selector(doSomething:)];
Several benefits fall out of this design, and Buoy also makes other improvements to Swing. For instance, (like Cocoa) Buoy doesn’t generate events when you manipulate widgets programmatically.
I don’t write Swing code anymore, but if I did I’d surely want to use something like Buoy.
