Jo Vermeulen

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Uiml.net

Introduction

Uiml.net is a free software UIML renderer. Prof. dr. Kris Luyten started the project in 2003. Uiml.net is written in C# and can render a UIML description using different widget sets and platforms. Fully supported toolkits include System.Windows.Forms, System.Windows.Forms on the Compact.NET framework and Gtk#. We used to have support for Wx.Net, but this backend is now deprecated.

I started working on Uiml.net when I did an internship at EDM in July, 2004. I ported Uiml.net to Windows (it used to run only on Linux with Mono) and implemented the System.Windows.Forms backend for the desktop and for Windows Mobile devices. During my Master's thesis I extended Uiml.net with support for layout constraints using the Cassowary.net constraint solver. I have guided two Bachelor's theses (Jan Meskens and Ingo Berben) and four Master's theses (Jan Meskens, Rob Van Roey, Neal Robben and Tijl Lathouwers) on improving the software.

People

A number of people have been involved with Uiml.net. Here is a list of colleagues that have worked on Uiml.net:

• Prof. dr. Kris Luyten
• Kristof Thys
• Jan Meskens

Students that have extended the renderer:

• Ingo Berben
• Rob Van Roey
• Neal Robben
• Tijl Lathouwers

Links

• Uiml.net homepage
• Uiml.net Launchpad page

Related Publications

Kris Luyten, Kristof Thys, Jo Vermeulen and Karin Coninx. A Generic Approach for Multi-Device User Interface Rendering with UIML. In Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V, Proc. of CADUI '06. pp. 175-182.