I'm currently adding a new tag library to the Luxor XUL toolkit that supports all Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) layout managers.

Now the challenge is to design an easy-to-use XML format for GridLayout.

Here's my first shot:

  <gridbag colums="3" margin="10,10" />
    
    <jlabel text="label0" />
    <griddata colspan="2" fill="HORZ"> <jtext text="text1" /> </griddata>

    <griddata colspan="3" halign="MAX"> 
        <jtable>
          <jtableitem text="item1" />
          <jtableitem text="item2" />
        </jtable>
    </griddata>

    <jbutton text="button3" />
    <jbutton text="button4" />    
    <griddata halign="CENTER"> <jbutton text="button5" /> </griddata>   
 
  </gridbag>

For comparision check out the plain old Java spaghetti code in the Javalobby discussion thread. Can you do better? Help shape the future of rich UIs using XML and post your own XML format contender today.