If it's gonna take a while to start up our Swing app, then we probably wanna
display a splash screen.
It's easy with Java6 - just add a -splash command-line option.
Click here to read "Splash Screen, a waiting game"
A part of "Gooey Beans, the GUI part of a trilogy in 42 parts"
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We initialise a SplashScreen instance and get its Graphics2D as follows....
Earlier
we considered using straight Base-64 for hiding sensitive data from prying eyes.
Let's take it a step further and actually encrypt the data using a known password.
Click here to read "Encryptic, a cover story"
Part of the "Jelly Beans" part of a trilogy in 42 parts
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We implement the following class to support password-based encryption
using the DES...
We hear talk of introducing "native XML" into Java7. I'm not sure what form that might take?
Embedding HTML and SQL (and JavaScript et al) "text" into Java is cumbersome eg. using multi-line concatenated string literals. And this doesn't lend itself towards leveraging IDEs eg. for auto-completion, error-detection and syntax-highlighting. What might work for me is allowing "annotations" that are...
