From XML data to AWT objects

[Luca Parodi]

Hello everybody,
I ask for an info about XML Schema and Java.
I need a tool -or something similar- in order to get .xsd files and create
an output with AWT objects (such as labels, buttons, checkboxes, ..)
following the tags of the .xsd files.
For example: if I parse in the .xsd file the tag <choice> I have to create a
checkbox group representing the choice, if I parse the tag <element> having
the value "string" in its type attribute I have to create a text box or a
label, and so on.
I'm trying to implement all this in Java, but I'd be very happy to find some
Java tool that already makes this work or something similar...
Thank you in advance. Luca Parodi

 

[Mark Preston]

Hello everybody,
I ask for an info about XML Schema and Java.
I need a tool -or something similar- in order to get .xsd files and create
an output with AWT objects (such as labels, buttons, checkboxes, ..)
following the tags of the .xsd files.

Yup - gotcha.

Have you looked at the XMLEncoder utility provided in Java 1.4 as yet?
It will do exactly what you want - and more. For instance, you can use
it to persist your own objects into an XML file if you want to as well
as to persist GUI elements.

Sun recently did an article about it and it should be on the website.