Extending Rich GUI Clients with Jython

摘要

Allowing extensibility of a rich Java GUI is a daunting task. Each user may require slightly different functionality-this one wants to be able to import data from an Excel spreadsheet, and another wants to generate custom XML reports of particular artifacts in the application. You want to make every user happy, but you very rapidly see yourself with multiple code branches trying to satisfy those custom requirements - every Java developer's configuration management nightmare.