Hmm..

You pretty much described GNU Enterprise in many respects.  GEAS (the app
server are the components data storage).  Forms is the form engine that
reads XML.  Designer is a visual tool to build the gui (like a VB) and
bind it to the objects.  All data binding is handled for you i.e. little
or no programming necessary to build business applications.  Add to that
xplatform to curses, gtk, motif, win32 and osX (soon macOS and html too)

However we are free as in libre (GPL), so I suppose it wont work for you.

http:/www.gnuenterprise.org

Entity might, it is similar XML based GUI forms engine though they are
just beginning the idea of data binding.  They are MIT license I believe.  

http://www.entity.cx

Derek

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Trent Shipley wrote:

> We spend a lot of time tailoring our user interface so that it is _j-u-s-t
> s-o_ for the next customer.
> 
> It would be nice to just hand them the components and say "Here! Build your
> own @#$% user interface."  The same is true about reports, but more so.
> 
> <Generic Widget Cannery GWC>
> 
> What I'd really like is a generic (or abstract) GUI layout tool --
> free-to-me-but-not-to-you (Berkeley class license)-- toolkit that would let
> me take a generic widget shape, attach it to a predefined class and then
> bundle it all together in a canned VB-esque task delimited tool that would
> be proprietary.  It would be a layout and design meta-tool to package code
> into a canned GUI kit.  Windows and widgets in a box -- no programming
> needed.
> 
> (Actually, an MS licensed development tool would go over even better in this
> shop than portable freeware.)
> 
> 
> <How would I search for specified development tool?>
> 
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