Express4J / News: Recent posts

Express4J is a lightweight UI framework based on Java and XML. Unlike other user interface frameworks, it provides its own set of nice-looking and easy-to-use widgets that is visually "between" Vista and OS X (more OS X though ;-). The major focus of release 8 is on UI control speed and usability.

I have to admit that we have let this project slide a little bit, since our "core" project (Onepoint Project) needed all our attention. However, we have now updated the binary and source distributions to be up-to-speed with the associated "opproject" project; so you can now also compile the Express4J-part from source if you want to.... read more

The new release of Express4J fixes a lot of smaller usability and rendering problems in the various components.

Express4J was designed to provide a very lightweight, browser-like pure Java environment allowing to build highly interactive user interfaces for applets and stand-alone applications alike. It is mainly used as the UI foundation for Onepoint Project (opproject), an open source project leadership tool which is also available on Sourceforge.... read more

Express4J was designed to provide a very lightweight, browser-like pure Java environment allowing to build highly interactive user interfaces for applets and stand-alone applications alike.

We have now launched a first project website outlining our major design goals and released a first version of the Express4J tutorial providing you with a first insight on how to write applications or applets using our framework.... read more