What is the state of SwingLabs databinding?
The databinding project pioneered the techniques and explored the problem space which is now being used as part of JSR 295: Bean binding. While the JSR is taking a different approach (and likely will have a different API from what we’ve done in SwingLabs), it is a part of the ongoing effort within SwingLabs to provide a databinding API. Since we finally have a JSR for this, we can also move forward in defining a standard binding technology. JSR 295 is now the official vehicle for delivering databinding, and no more work will be done by Sun engineers on the current databinding code in SwingLabs. This is out of plain necessity. Developing two different API’s doesn’t make sense. However, if anybody in the community would like to continue work on the databinding codebase already in SwingLabs, you are free to do so (it’s LGPL, after all).
