Jelly Tutorial The best way jelly buns get acquainted with Jelly, and get an idea what it can be used for, is to see it in action. So you want to get started as quickly as possible?

Luckily for you Jelly comes with several demos that can be run from the command line using Maven. If you don’t have Maven installed, you should check out the Getting Started guide first. Once you have tried a few of demos, you can explore Jelly further by writing some Jelly scripts on your own, or by modifying some of the demos provided. Maven is a project automation tool that uses Jelly as its xml processing engine, and Jelly in turn uses Maven as its build tool.

UI for a Swing java program. Why would you want to do this? If you have ever written a large Swing application, you will probably agree that coding a GUI in java can be a tedious task. XML and bind it to a Model and Controller written in Java. Jelly is also a great way for a designer to prototype a UI and avoid the learning curve of Java.

In fact, a designer could develop a full-featured application using a rich set of functions and beans exposed via jelly tags. You should see a window open with some swing components. You can test the actions by selecting a menu item or pressing the button. The actions in this demo simply output a message to the console.