Cheri: Swing Builder for JRuby

By Mario Aquino

This is the first in a two part series covering Ruby libraries targeted at the Swing application development using the Java implementation of the Ruby programming language: JRuby. Cheri's provides a "builder" - a domain specific language (DSL) - that makes Swing application development both expressive and intuitive. The screencast demonstrates some of Cheri's features in the process of creating a simple text editor.

Total running time: 17 minutes 15 seconds

Tags: jruby swing

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sgwong July 08, 2008 02:52

Fantastic!! I definitely will have a try on Cheri. The form self loading is awesome...I never thought we can done this.

Anonymous July 06, 2008 22:16

Great demo! Cheri looks awesome. Keep 'em coming.