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Posted to commits@pivot.apache.org by gb...@apache.org on 2011/01/19 14:16:53 UTC
svn commit: r1060806 - /pivot/site/trunk/www/about.xml
Author: gbrown
Date: Wed Jan 19 13:16:53 2011
New Revision: 1060806
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1060806&view=rev
Log:
Eliminate reference to RIA in About page.
Modified:
pivot/site/trunk/www/about.xml
Modified: pivot/site/trunk/www/about.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pivot/site/trunk/www/about.xml?rev=1060806&r1=1060805&r2=1060806&view=diff
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--- pivot/site/trunk/www/about.xml (original)
+++ pivot/site/trunk/www/about.xml Wed Jan 19 13:16:53 2011
@@ -24,29 +24,23 @@ limitations under the License.
<body>
<section name="What is Apache Pivot?">
<p>
- Apache Pivot is an open-source 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 Java platform. 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.
- </p>
- <p>
- Like other modern development platforms, Pivot provides a comprehensive set of
- foundation classes that together comprise a "framework". These classes form the
- building blocks upon which more complex and sophisticated applications can be built.
+ Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
+ applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features
+ of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform.
</p>
</section>
- <section name="Who is Pivot's target audience?">
- <p>
- Pivot was designed to be familiar to web developers who have experience building
- AJAX applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. However, 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.
+ <section name="Why Pivot?">
+ <p>
+ Pivot allows developers to easily construct visually-engaging, cross-platform,
+ connected applications in Java or any other JVM language, such as JavaScript,
+ Groovy, or Scala. Pivot is also the only truly open IIA framework: it is
+ completely open source, and is driven entirely by the software development
+ community.<br/><br/>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Pivot enables developers to build solutions using the tools they already know,
+ decreasing delivery time and reducing technology sprawl.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Pivot's History">