Martin Fowler, once, said that the best method to make a project faster is to improve the speed in that 1/10 part of the code where 9/10 of the time is consumed. Let's apply that to project development. Considering that most of out projects are mainly constructed from tables and forms that are linked with the database, if we could make the development of these components faster, the development of the entire projects would be faster.

I created a few components for this purpose that make web (swing in the future) forms much easier to work with, and make database access transparent, by using JDO. Also tables are much easier to construct and handle.

More concrete:
Wouldn't you like to construct a form like this:



without worrying about data retrieval, whether is an insert or update, and save into the database? Or wouldn't you like to build a paged, multi selection , orderable by columns table like this with just a few lines of code:




For the first version this project extends Echo web framework (http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo) , its components project Echopoint (http://echopoint.sf.net/) and TJDO (http://tjdo.sf.net/).

Future versions might also provide the same functionality for Swing and JSF (Java Server Faces).

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