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JavaFX 2.0: how to size your windows easily

Window size vs Scene size

Using JavaFX 2.0 inside Swing applications
JavaFX 2.0 Beta is out on May 26, 2011. There are many blogs posted about it already, http://fxexperience.com/ is the primary...
Building JDK bits
Recently, I got a new desktop, and the first thing I started with was building JDK. Approximately at the same time I got an image of a new operating system by Microsoft (beta version) and started...
Using JWebPane: common scenarios
In the last blog posting I introduced a new component called JWebPane that renders HTML content in Java applications. Today I'd like to discuss the details of the practical use of this component. Let...
Introducing JWebPane component
Recently, at the JavaOne conference, Sun has introduced several new JavaFX related technologies and products. The Scene Graph and WebKit session was one of the technical sessions to present such...
java.awt.TrayIcon: isSupported vs isAvailable

Description of the problem


When the java.awt.SystemTray class was first introduced in JDK 6.0, there was only one method to check if the system tray and tray icons can be...
Improved top-level icons support in Mustang

What's the problem?


In Java™ 2 SE 5.0 and previous releases a single method in java.awt.Frame class enables developers to specify an icon for the frame: ...
java.awt.Desktop vs Runtime.exec()

Desktop API vs Runtime.exec()


I'm often asked why is that new class, java.awt.Desktop, is introduced. They state all the required actions can be performed with the call to...
Using JPopupMenu in TrayIcon

What's the problem?


Tray icons introduced in Mustang have several properties and methods corresponding to image for the icon, tooltip text, popup menu and ability to show some message to...
Headless toolkit basics

Toolkit

java.awt.Toolkit is an abstract superclass of all actual implementations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). Subclasses of java.awt.Toolkit are used to...