I am currently cleaning up the various Canyon SPIs (Service Provider Interface) so that the canyon object which is exposed to the scripts now has a standard interface for the various methods therein (show(), hide(), get(), etc). Next up is writing the much needed documentation, tutorial and website. I’ll try to do that when I [...]

I released Canyon Core 0.5.1 today. It is available either from the Dataforte Maven Repository at http://www.dataforte.net/listing/maven/releases/ and tagged in SVN at https://canyon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/canyon/tags/canyon-core/canyon-core-0.5.1/ This is the first stable release of Canyon Core, and I’ve put quite a bit of work into it over the past few years. Releases of Canyon Echo2, Canyon Cooee and Canyon [...]

In order to make the widgets available as object during script execution, I have extended javax.script.SimpleBindings so that I lookup keys in the widget hierarchy before handing it down to the backing map by overriding the get() method. This was how I did it when using the Groovy implementation directly. I have discovered that javax.script [...]

Canyon is my implementation of the concepts behind various kinds of XML-based application interface tools (XAML, Flash MXML, ZK, etc). Canyon started off as a way to describe Echo2 (http://echo.nextapp.com) applications using XML bound together with Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org) scripts. Recently I’ve been working on refactoring Canyon to support multiple widget libraries (Echo2, Cooee, Echo3, Swing, [...]