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Declarative UI for Java

6 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2023-01-01 · latest 2025-11-12

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  1. A previewer for Sierra which is an XML based DSL for Java Swing (not by me, but by Greg Brown) https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra I like the ability to declare UIs and the layout manager that Sierra has is the only sane layout manager for…
    comment by rlawson · 2025-11-12 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
  2. Added an example demonstrating how to add an action listener to a button: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s... I'm not sure it's exactly what you were looking for, but hopefully it is similar enough.
    comment by gk_brown · 2023-01-03 · in Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications
  3. Agreed. I said as much in my response to this issue that was opened the other day: https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/issues/12
    comment by gk_brown · 2023-01-03 · in Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications
  4. …the with() method). See OrientationTest for an example (e.g. leftToRightButton, rightToLeftButton): https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s... I should probably add a better example.
    comment by gk_brown · 2023-01-03 · in Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications
  5. …taking the FormTest [1] example, how might one simply bind a model object to the UI elements? [1] https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s...
    comment by kitd · 2023-01-03 · in Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications