Echo2Impress
What?
Echo2Impress is an application used to build and run presentations. It was inspired by the Nextapp Echo2 Demo application.
Based on the Echo2 framework, by implementing a hierarchy of Presentation, Topic and Slide objects, Echo2Impress creates a summary AccordionPane on the left and two “next” and “previous” buttons on the bottom of your screen, while leaving the main and biggest area of it available for your slides contents.
Two templates are available to build most common slides: MessageSlide and LabelListTemplate.
Why?
Just for fun and to give a starting point to anyone evaluating Echo2. Plus, it’s really cool to present Echo2 with an Echo2 application.
Where?
You can download Echo2Impress from SourceForge. Echo2Impress depends on Echo2 and Echo2Extras.
How?
Echo2Impress handles presentation data navigation, switching slides, focusing AccordionPane tabs and changing buttons styles.
To best way to begin working with Echo2Impress is to download the blank application and give it a look.
Basically, create a class with a static method that returns a Presentation instance. Then edit the web.xml and set the value of the “presentation.builder.method” parameter with the fully qualified name of the previously created class followed by its static method name.
Deploy it to your favorite servlet container and enjoy it.
Ok. How much for it?
Echo2Impress is distributed under the MPL1.1 and the GPL2 and the LGPL2.1 licenses. It is free (as in freedom) software.
Where are you?
If you need support, you can mail me (get the details in the contact page).
