Do you like the idea of using programming to create web graphics? Web
Designer In A Box is a set of custom tag libraries intended to
eventually provide a complete solution to programmers for handling the
functions normally carried out by a web designer: web graphics and
image creation, color and theme management, layout, site navigation,
and content management. At the moment the focus is on web graphics and
the first tag library, graphics, which exposes the Java2D API, is now
available.

Homepage: <a href="http://www.wdiab.com">www.wdiab.com</a>.
Downloads: <a
href="http://www.wdiab.com/downloads.jsp">www.wdiab.com/downloads.jsp</a>.

Requirements

Web Designer In A Box  requires Java 1.4 or better and a JSP 2.0
compatible servlet container. <a href="http://www.caucho.com">Caucho
Resin 3.0</a> and <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org">Apache Tomcat
5.5</a> are both known to work. You'll also need fonts and textures
appropriate to your project and a working Java2D environment (e.g.,
headless mode, a working font server with X-Windows if the server is of
the *nix persuasion, etc.)</p>

Licensing

Web Designer In A Box is not free software. You are welcome to download
and use the software to any extent; but the images are branded by the
encoder until a license key file is inserted into the WEB-INF folder.
To get the branding off requires a license. The nominal cost of the
license fee allows work to continue on the project. See the <a
href="http://www.wdiab.com/license/index.jsp">licensing page</a> for
details.

Graphics Taglib Features

    <ul>
        <li>Exposes key portions of the Java2D Graphics API</li>
        <li>Image caching and management with dynamic XHTML tag
generation.</li>
        <li>Integrated client-side image map support</li>
        <li>Written to JSP 2.0</li>
        <li>Full Attributed Text support</li>
        <li>Lots of effects filters, like drop shadow and gaussian blur</li>
        <li>Plays well with Struts and other frameworks</li>
        <li>Complete examples webapp included</li>
    </ul>

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The WDIAB.COM Team.