I've been working on a very fun and challenging proof of concept
/ usability project that involves Pentaho Data Integration
(Kettle), XUL, SWT, Swing and a very cool, slightly controversial
theory: with a lot of work frontloaded, we should be able to port
user interfaces to any UI technology, and expect consistent
behavior AND look and feel without much, if any, additional code
.
The project I'm in the middle of encompasses three different but
equally compelling goals:
- To move Pentaho forward in providing common layers across our core pillars (reporting , analysis, data mining, ETL and dashboards).
- To provide a proof of concept for the Pentaho XUL Framework, an architecture built to help us support common UIs across all of our applications and tools .
- To provide a common way of describing and managing the information needed to connect to a database.
So, we began by …
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