Pivot is a platform for building rich internet
applications in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness
of the industry-standard Java platform.
A sample Pivot application
Pivot applications are written using a combination of Java and
XML and can be run either as an applet or as a standalone
(optionally offline) desktop application. While Pivot was designed
to be familiar to web developers who have experience building AJAX
applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it provides a much
richer set of standard widgets than HTML, and allows developers to
create sophisticated user experiences much more quickly and easily.
Pivot will also seem familiar to Swing developers, as both Swing and
Pivot are based on Java2D and employ a model-view-controller (MVC)
architecture to separate component data from presentation. However,
Pivot includes additional features that make building modern GUI
applications much easier, including declarative UI, data binding,
effects and transitions, and web services integration.
Apache Pivot is developed in an open and participatory environment and
released under the Apache
Software License. Apache Pivot is intended to be a collaboration of the
best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to
participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting
involved, click here.
