JavaDesktop Features

Swing links of the week: November 16, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-11-17

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last week...

Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-11-13

What, why, when and how - these are the questions that shape the communication between the product developers and their users...

Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Schedule Set

Roger Brinkley — 2008-11-11

The preliminary schedule for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days has been published.

Joshua Marinacci: JavaFX in Sweden

Joshua Marinacci — 2008-11-10

I have been extremely remiss in my blog posting. A quick glance at Java.net says that my last post was August 26th. Well, my only excuse is that I've been mad busy working on the JavaFX SDK. Launching a new...

Java Posse #216 - Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-11-09

Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte, CO. This discussion covers topics like re-use vs. re-write, abandoned software projects, sta

James Gosling: We've been cranking!

jag — 2008-11-09

Just in case you hadn't noticed, in the waves of election-mania, Sun has been cranking out a pile of great software releases recently...

Java(FX) Enterprise Development

Richard Bair — 2008-11-07

There's been a lot of rumor recently about enterprise Java development and where its headed, and what Sun's commitment is, particularly with regards to JavaFX. Here I talk about some of these issues. Questions welcome!

Kirill Grouchnikov: A move towards UI consistency in Windows 7

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-11-07

Once a subject of heated discussions, the native vs. cross-platform skinning has not been mentioned for quite some time in Swing blogosphere. While this post by no means aims to revive the dead ghosts, i saw something quite interesting in the PDC session on the Windows 7 Explorer...

Fabrizio Giudici: Guys, don't panic - Swing is here to stay

Fabrizio Giudici — 2008-11-07

The announcement of Sun stopping funding of SwingX is spreading some irrational fears. I'm in the worst moment to blog about that, but I'd like to put some things clear immediately...

Kirill Grouchnikov: 20 design blogs for UI developers

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-11-06

This blog is about putting pixels on screen. If i need to choose between getting a bunch of finished image from a graphics designer and hand coding each and every pixels in the code, you know my choice. We must, however, acknowledge our limitations and strive to better our understanding of what a good design [more]

Kirill Grouchnikov: Sun setting down on the core Swing

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-11-06

Core Swing is in the process of being retired as a legacy UI technology inside Sun, and last week has marked another sad (yet expected) milestone - stopping the funding of SwingX project.

Ribbon component, AutoCAD 2009 and consistent UIs

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-10-25

Even before Microsoft has chosen the ribbon component as the emerging trend in its desktop applications, it has spent significant resources not only on the design itself, but also on the painstakingly elaborate user interface design guidelines. The complete document for “Office Fluent UI” weighs in as a 119-page PDF, and it looks like much [...]

Is there a standard way to deploy a Java application?

David Herron — 2008-10-24

I've been thinking about this a bit recently and a comment on the javaposse google group tipped me into blogging mode. While discussing the recent shipping of JDK 6u10 Reinier Zwitserloot said On windows, and on linux, there is no...

Creating an embedded screencast recorder in your desktop application

Fabrizio Giudici — 2008-10-24

A couple of beta users of blueMarine have submitted an issue several weeks ago, about some strange behaviour of the photo thumbnails. As usual, I asked them to send the log files, a thing that they did promptly. I thing...

Java Posse #213 - Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-10-23

Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com The Android project has been released as open source, beating the rumored launch date for the source code by several months http://source.android.com/ And, Gi

New JavaFX Tutorial : Easily Building Your First JavaFX Applet

Charles Ditzel — 2008-10-16

Check out how simple it is to create a JavaFX (draggable) applet. More....

Swing links of the week: October 12

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-10-13

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last week: James Britt has an article on IBM.com developerWorks site on developing JRuby Swing applications with Monkeybars library. Jean Francois Poilpret continues tackling the more intricate problems with layout managers. This week he analyzes the real-time resizing of different components, including sliders, tables and [...]

Swing links of the week: October 5

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-10-06

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last week: The results for OpenJDK Community Innovators’ Challenge are in. Congratulations to Clemens Eisserer for the Gold on his XRender pipeline for Java2D, and to Roman Kennke / Mario Torre for the Bronze on their portable GUI backends. Ken Orr has announced release 0.9.2 [...]

Java Posse #209 - Jython Interview

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-10-05

Jython Interview from the JVM Languages Summit Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We interview Jim Baker, Tobias Ivarson, Frank Wierzbicki and Phil Jenvy from the Jython team, a JVM implementation of the Python programmi

Flamingo ribbon component: application menu button and taskbar

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-10-04

I’ve been relatively quiet on this blog for the last couple of weeks, but i have some good news to share about the Flamingo ribbon component - it now provides the cross-LAF support for application menu button and application taskbar. The ribbon is a fairly complicated container, and while release 3.1 has made great strides [...]

Sexy Swing Apps on Mac OS X

Romain Guy — 2008-10-04

A few months ago I stumbled upon what came to be one of the most interesting Swing blogs I’ve ever read. Actually, it is the most interesting Swing blog I know of. Exploding Pixels, by Ken Orr, shows how to create beautiful looking Swing applications for Mac OS X. Ken has a great sense of design, [...]

Filthy Rich Clients in Japanese

Romain Guy — 2008-10-01

Thanks to the hard work of Kouichi Matsuda, Filthy Rich Clients is now available in Japanese. Now I wish I didn’t drop out of my Japanese class after only one year :)

JavaFX Script: the 100 Line Challenge

Simon Morris — 2008-09-30

Sometimes less is more. In the spirit of the '64k intros' I've been seeing how far I can push JavaFX with a minimum of code. Now I throw down the gauntlet -- does anyone else want to join me in the quest for the ultimate 'cheap thrill'?!?

Swing links of the week: September 28

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-09-29

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last week: The work on Caciocavallo project that aims to improve OpenJDK graphics stack to enable the use of external implementations of AWT/Java2D backends is continuing even after the official submission date of the OpenJDK Innovators’ Challenge. Roman Kennke has posted a progress update [...]

Fabien Duminy: JFreeChart running under JNode

fabien — 2008-09-28

JNode start to be able to execute applications, for example JFreeChart Here are some screenshots showing that : CombinedCategoryPlotDemo1 ScatterPlotDemo1 PieChartDemo1 GanttDemo1 Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™

Java Posse #208 - Report from JVM Languages Summit

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-09-28

Report from the JVM Language Summit Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We bring you a situation report recorded from the JVM language summit, including some special guests and special announcements. We were in a bit of a

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 which supports Java 1.6.0_07, Java 1.5.0_16, and Java 1.4.2_18.

2008-10-20

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 which supports Java 1.6.0_07, Java 1.5.0_16, and Java 1.4.2_18. They have also released Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 7 that supports Java 1.5.0_16, and Java 1.4.2_18. Several security vulnerabilities are closed in these releases.

Non-rectangular Windows

technomage (noreply@blogger.com) — 2008-09-25

I've been meaning to play around with shaped windows for a while, but didn't relish the thought of walking through the tedium of JNI configurations and builds. Doing it on one platform is bad enough, but on several? No thanks.

So I thought I'd write a little scriptable shared library access stub once and be done with JNI entirely. Well, turns out it's already been done. Several times.

JNative
NLink
JNA

JNative has some interesting features not found in the others, but actually using it is only slightly better than JNI. NLink is currently w32-only, and has a bit of a COM bent. JNA fit most closely with my objectives, already had implementations for w32 and solaris, and was already platform-agnostic. So I took a couple days to hack in some more features (mostly to get an understanding of the codebase), and here is what I got. The following code is what it takes to make a frame take an arbitrary shape.


    User32 user32 = User32.INSTANCE;
    GDI32 gdi32 = GDI32.INSTANCE;
    JFrame frame = new JFrame(getName());
    Pointer p = gdi32.CreateRoundRectRgn(0, -150, 300, 300, 300, 300);
    int hWnd = user32.FindWindowA(null, getName());
    user32.SetWindowRgn(hWnd, p, true);

Looking up the appropriate w32 calls probably took the most time. How are the w32 libraries defined? How is this for trivial:


    public interface User32 extends StdCallLibarary {
        User32 INSTANCE = (User32)Native.loadLibary("user32", User32.class);
        int FindWindowA(String winClass, String title);
        void setWindowRgn(int hWnd, Pointer p, boolean redraw);
    }
    public interface GDI32 extends StdCallLibrary {
        GDI32 INSTANCE = (GDI32)Native.loadLibrary("gdi32", GDI32.class);
        Pointer CreateRoundRectRgn(int left, int top, int right, int bottom, int w, int h);
    }

Now, somebody's probably going to point me to how SWT has had this functionality for years (does it?), but this is nicely abstracted and based on a very small number of classes. I'll be updating the code at jna.dev.java.net (or maybe opening a new location if I can't get the existing project moved to subversion), but for now, check out the demo by clicking on everyone's favorite orange launch button.

Permissions required, because this runs some custom native code.

Oh, BTW, this is windows-only for the moment. I'll do X11 next and anyone's free to send me some code snippets for setting window masks on other platforms. I could also use some help porting to PPC and other platforms (a very small amount of native ASM to push arguments to the stack, not too hard).

New Tutorial : Swing-Like LWUIT for Mobile Development

Charles Ditzel — 2008-09-26

LWUIT provides a nice Swing-like API for Mobile. There is a new LWUIT tutorial. More...

Java Posse #207 - Listener Feedback

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-09-24

Listener FeedbackFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com GetJarhttp://www.getjar.com Androidhttp://www.android.com Simon Brown on JavaFXhttp://www.simongbrown.com/ blog/2008/09/02/ javafx_why_ how_and_when_will_it_be_ s

Java Posse #212 - Oracle Developer Tools Interview

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-10-20

Interview with Ted Farrell about Oracle Developer Tools Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We talk to Ted Farrell (and at the end Duncan Mills) about the Oracle Java developer tools, the new Oracle 11g product stack, Ora

New article on Subversion replication

John Ferguson Smart — 2008-10-17

Subversion 1.5 makes it pretty easy to set up a simple replicated architecture, either for backs or for load distribution. Following up on a presentation I did a while back on Subversion replication, DevX has just published a new article...

Interview : Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Java Client Software Discusses the Clientside

Charles Ditzel — 2008-10-17

RedMonk has a nice interview with Danny Coward, Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software Group. Very interesting interview. More....

Jasper Potts: Skinning a Slider with Nimbus

2008-08-27

Time for an example of how to skin a Swing JSlider using the Nimbus Look and Feel and some simple painting code!

Jasper Potts: Nimbus UIManager UIDefaults

Jasper Potts — 2008-08-27

Nimbus is completely configured by properties in the UIManager defaults table. In my last blog I showed a simple example of how to skin a single component. This gave you a sneak peek into the power of these properties..

Alexander Potochkin: JXLayer 3.0 - MouseScrollableUI

2008-06-27

Implementing the auto-scrolling feature with JXLayer

Red Hat's IcedTea open source JVM has passed the Java Compatibility Kit tests.

2008-06-27

Red Hat's IcedTea open source JVM has passed the Java Compatibility Kit tests. Thus on paper we now have a fully open source Java virtual machine. Now the work starts to begin noticing and reporting areas where the Sun VM and the Red hat VM diverge in significant ways, and thus indicate bugs in the specifications and compatibility kit. Nonetheless this is a major milestone.

Java Posse #194 - Newscast for June 26th 2008

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-06-26

Newscast for June 26th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Eclipse 3.4 - Ganymede - has been releasedhttp://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20080625_ganymede.phphttp://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/ eclipse-34-hidden-

On the evolution of the Java plugin

David Herron — 2008-06-26

Ted Neward on the demise of Java applets is an interesting look back in history (interview on the Sparkling Client podcast). The Java Applet was the first of the RIA platforms, long before Flash became the king of RIA, long...

Enhancing the Flamingo command button component

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-25

Over the course of the past few weeks the command button component in Flamingo component suite has been enhanced following the feedback from the project users. There is nothing better than getting the feedback from real-world use, and it is much appreciated on my side. Many thanks go to Kenneth Flynn and Christian Hebert for [...]

Substance Extras pack - part II

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-24

The new Extras pack for Substance look-and-feel provides additional settings on top of the functionality available in the core library. The previous entry showed screenshots of color schemes, watermarks and skins from the Extras pack, and this entry will talk about button shapers, mixed color scheme and mixed gradient painters. Additional button shapers can be found [...]

Article reprint in JavaWorld

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-24

My “party of one” series of articles about one-man open source projects has been reprinted in an abridged form over at JavaWorld.com. Those of you who missed it the first time can either read the shorter version linked above or spend more time on the full series: Introduction to one-man open source projects Development and staying passionate Maintenance [...]

Swing links of the week: June 22, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-23

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Jacek Furmankiewicz has announced the first beta release 0.1 of his SwingBuilder project. It provide support for data binding with Beans Binding, layout management with MigLayout, validation with Apache Commons Validator, long running tasks with SwingWorker and has integration libraries for JIDE and [...]

Substance Extras pack

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-21

As specified in the roadmap for version 5.0 of Substance look-and-feel, a number of the existing Substance plugins have been consolidated into the Extras pack. This pack contains additional color schemes, watermarks and skins, as well as a mixed color scheme and a mixed gradient painter. The documentation for the Extras pack contains the information [...]

Java Posse #193 - Listener Feedback

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-06-20

Listener FeedbackFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Audio feedback sent in to the Java Posse feedback number: (408) 465 4626Other Java implementations than Sun's Java:IBM - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jd

Performance comparison of Substance skins

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-19

As a follow up to the previous post that showed how LightBeam tool can be used to analyze the performance of various core and third-party Swing look-and-feels, today i’m going to answer Luke’s question in the comments section and compare the performance of the core Substance skins. The table below lists all available core Substance skins, [...]

Did Apple update their 1.5 renderer ?

JP — 2008-06-18

Looks like it. Lots of Apple people in my web logs as well. Maybe my mind tricks are working ! Lima Lima Lima....

David Gilbert: Charts in Charts

David Gilbert — 2008-06-18

A client asked how to add one or more small charts within a larger chart using JFreeChart. I figured that one approach would be to use the XYDrawableAnnotation class, but it turned out that I needed to add a scaling facility to make this work nicely. This has gone into Subversion for inclusion in the next release (1.0.11). Here's a demo screenshot to illustrate ...

LightBeam - measuring performance of Swing look-and-feels

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-18

About a month ago i have introduced the new project named LightBeam that aims to assist look-and-feel writers to measure performance of their libraries under various static and dynamic scenarios. I have used this tool extensively during the performance optimizations of the next release of Substance look-and-feel, and it has now reached its first official [...]

A Thumbnail Preview Tabbed Pane

Collin Fagan — 2008-06-17

Lately I've been spending my spare time contributing code samples to the The Java Tutorial Community Portal. My latest addition is a tabbed pane that shows a preview of a tab as a thumbnail tooltip.

Swing links of the week: June 15, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-16

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Jan Erik Paulsen experiments with the new functionality of shaped and translucent windows in 6u10. The screenshots are impressive, and he is correctly pointing out two main deficiencies of the current (semi-private) API. The first is that you need to attach a listener [...]

Java Posse #192 - Newscast for June 12th 2008

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-06-14

Newscast for June 12th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comPOSSE 200th EPISODE COMINGWe are currently trying to guage interest in a live performance and potentially an unconference for the 200th episode, which wil

New Swing Article : SwingLabs' PDF Renderer

Charles Ditzel — 2008-06-14

New article on the PDF Renderer project at SwingLabs. More....

Using JWebPane: common scenarios

Artem Ananiev — 2008-06-11

Moving on with JWebPane. Let's examine some basic things developers can do with this component.

David Gilbert: JFreeChart 1.0.10

David Gilbert — 2008-06-10

JFreeChart 1.0.10 is out now. It's a free (LGPL) chart library written in Java. The NEWS file lists the latest changes. I've been working on JFreeChart for years and I charge money for the documentation. That's all.

SwingX 0.9.3 Released

Jan Haderka — 2008-06-10

After weeks of waiting SwingX 0.9.3 have been released. Delivers fixes for most pressing issues identified since previous release.

Teppefall Kvitre prototype

JP — 2008-06-09

Just playing around with Java 1.6.0_10-beta-b23. The shaped window is a bit ugly in the edges, but this is the best I can do for now. The resizing is a bit wonky as well. I have to redesign parts of...

Swing links of the week: June 8, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-06-09

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Synthetica look-and-feel has released version 2.7.0 and 2.7.1. No new skins have been added, but there are some new features and bug fixes. Swing has aged remarkably well considering its long history and imposed rules of preserving backwards compatibility. However, there are some trends [...]

Alexander Potochkin: JXLayer 3.0 - Getting started

Alexander Potochkin — 2008-06-05

A major update of JXLayer, a universal decorator for Swing components

Patrick Keegan: Using Beans Binding to Search in a Table

Patrick Keegan — 2008-06-05

Now and again someone will ask me how you can search records in a desktop database app. Here's a reasonably simple way to do so, using mechanisms that exist in Swing and the Beans Binding library. We will create a binding between the rowSorter property of the master table in the example in my previous entries and a text field that I've just added for the search string. For this binding we will need a binding converter so that the table knows how to respond to the search string.

Romain Guy: Slides and Audio for Filthy Rich Clients at JavaOne 2008

Romain Guy — 2008-06-04

Sun has posted the slides and audio of Filthy Rich Clients 2008. Enjoy!

Java Posse #190 - Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-06-04

Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian GoetzFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Our third annual chinwag with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz recorded at this year's JavaOne. We cover concurrency and strategies for dealing with it,

Geertjan: Swing Outline Component

geertjan — 2008-06-03

Announcing the new Swing Tree Table today, Tim writes:

Usage is incredibly easy - you just provide a standard Swing TreeModel of whatever sort you like, and an additional RowModel that can be queried for the other columns contents, editability and so forth.

I found an example from sometime ago, by Tim, and have been playing with it to get used to this new development...

responding to questions on Swing, RIA, and JavaFX

Amy Fowler — 2008-05-19

JavaOne raised many questions for Swing developers regarding the future of client development and I'd like to take a first stab at answering some of them.

Swing, RIA and JavaFX - interview with Amy Fowler

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-19

This year’s JavaOne placed a significant emphasis on client Java. The name Amy Fowler should ring a bell for anybody who ever delved into the intricacies of Swing internal implementation, and she graciously agreed to answer a few questions that i had after attending most of the desktop track sessions. Tell us a little bit about [...]

JavaOne Exhaustion (with links!)

Joshua Marinacci — 2008-05-19

So another JavaOne has come to an end. This time I think I finally tried to simply do too much. I'm lucky I didn't get the Moscone flu. Still, all in all, I think we had a good showing. I'm...

Static layout explorer

JP — 2008-05-20

This applet showcases the power of Teppefall Layout + MigLayout. Just click on the layout files below. There is no logic attached to these examples and you need Java 6u10 Beta b23 to run them correctly. I would like to...

Swing links of the week: May 18, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-18

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: This subject seems to come up every now and then over the last couple of years. Supporting CSS in Swing has been mentioned in Ben Galbraith’s presentation at last year’s JavaOne, Eitan Suez’s JMatter has a CSS module in it, and the naming [...]

Party Of One: Conclusion

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-18

This is the final part of the series on one-man open source projects. In the previous entries i talked about the different facets of the issues that face single-developer projects: Development and staying passionate Maintenance and staying focused Promotion and staying committed There are a lot of big projects out there with dozens of active developers and hundreds of [...]

Linux desktop market musings

Evan Summers — 2008-05-17

Encumbents Red Hat ignore the tricky consumer desktop market, and focus on the enterprise. I don't blame them. Upstart Canonical focusses on the consumer desktop et al. So I wonder what the future holds for Canonical vs Red Hat. Now where's that blasted crystal ball of mine - darn thing must have rolled under the couch again.

Party Of One: Promote

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-17

If you write it they will come. Open source software has thousands of eyeballs monitoring it for flaws. Let the code speak for itself. The code is the best documentation. Haven’t we all heard this before, and haven’t we all had this type of wishful thinking? Alas, the harsh reality of hundreds of thousands of [...]

Danny Coward: Top 10 JavaOne 2008 Rich Client things

dannycoward — 2008-05-16

Here's my top 10 list from Java on the client at JavaOne this year. Enjoy x 10 ! ...

Party Of One: Maintain

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-16

The previous entry on one-man open source projects has talked about the development facet. Today, i’m going to talk about perhaps the most unappreciated and overlooked part of any project - the maintenance. It is my belief that if you want your project to become and stay successful, you must treat the maintenance part with [...]

Party Of One: Develop

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-15

As mentioned in the introduction entry, every one-man hobby open source project has three main parts - development, maintenance and promotion. Today, i’m going to talk about where it all starts, and, if you’re not careful enough, where it all ends. It all starts, of course, with the development. You take an idea and you put [...]

Slides from JavaOne 2008: Filthier, Richer, Clientier

Romain Guy — 2008-05-14

Chet and I just posted our JavaOne 2008 slides online.

Rich Internet Applications Pavilion Floor Debate

Rachel Hill — 2008-05-14

Josh and Rachel again hit the pavilion floor and get caught up in a debate over rich internet applications, their purpose, their usefulness, and, once again, what exactly they are...

Party Of One: Surviving A Hobby Open-Source Project

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-14

Last week’s JavaOne had a separate track on open source, and there’s been a substantial number of very interesting panels, discussions and presentations. However, i felt that these talks concentrated mostly on big, well-established and very broad open-source communities. While it is perfectly understandable, the few dozens of these high-profile communities do not reflect the [...]

Rich Internet Applications

Rachel Hill — 2008-05-13

Click to Play play_blip_movie_909710(); Panel Discussion on Rich Internet Applications at the RedMonk Unconference at CommunityOne 2008Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Input on a New Desktop Java Database Tutorial

Patrick Keegan — 2008-05-13

Over the next few weeks, I'll be incrementally posting sections of an extended tutorial on creating a Swing desktop application with database connectivity. The tutorial will go beyond simple database connectivity and show things such as one-to-many and many-to-one relationships as well as how to bind database tables to a variety of GUI components. We'll use a MySQL database that has tables for client info, order info, and countries. There will be a one-to-many relationship between the client and order tables. There will be a many-to-one relationship between client and countries tables.

Swing links of the week: May 11, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-05-12

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Christophe Le Besnerais has a custom implementation of Paint interface to paint a glossy button with arc-shaped gradient. Paint is one of the more advanced concepts in Java2D and it’s tricky to create a performant implementation. The only visual thing that is missing [...]