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Highlights of Synthetica's BlackEye theme.
on Nov 22, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
While SwingX is going on steadily (1.6 has been recently released), things are pretty quiet for SwingX-WS. I've just recently patched it in order to make it compatible with the latest 1.6 and I'm fine with it, but I think that it's important that it is taken care consistently. From what I can understand, the SwingLabs guys are focusing on SwingX and little time remains for SwingX-WS. Also, SwingX...
on Nov 17, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Swing team welcomes the active SAF projects
on Nov 16, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Have you ever wondered how programming books get written? So did I, until I somehow ended up writing one!
on Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Joshua announces Project MaiTai, a visual tool for creating interactive graphical art
on Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Entry posted to my new blog.
on Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Kirill Grouchnikov posted Control alignment in Substance 6.0: Last week i have written about improving the visuals of text components, comboboxes and spinners in the 6.0dev branch of Substance look-and-feel library. Today, it's time to talk about the micro-design of these components - aligning perceived boundaries, text baseline and other visual elements of user input controls...
on Nov 4, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
New version of SwingX library have been released. From this version on, SwingX requires at least Java 6 to function properly.
on Nov 2, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
In my last attempt to stress the JavaFX platform, I ported the Strange Attractor demo/benchmark. Different from JavaFX Balls, this is not scenegraph-driven animation, but old-school "pixel by pixel" drawing… still, makes for another batch of interesting findings, including a few issues in the JavaFX Script language and its compiler, and other topics like fractal maths, BigDecimal, and...
on Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Did you know javap ignores Class-Path manifest attribute where as javac honors it? I didn't.
on Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
If you are creating a jar and you see it having an empty manifest, then blame it on the poor documentation of the API.
on Oct 13, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Introduce several helper classes that will ease you implementing advanced Observer pattern that will: 1) Switch threads between producer and listener; 2) Reduce coding issues by allowing producer to complete its own handling before its listeners start event handling.
on Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Design thread model along with OO model for your Swing application. A thread model defines a scope e.g. a set of classes a thread (or a pool of threads) will stay in. As threads would step out the scope, scopes employ message passing for event notification.
on Oct 9, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
What do you expect Class.getAnnotations() do when it can't load one of the annotation types present in the class? Read on...
on Oct 8, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Thread-safe is used to describe a Java class that is ready to be accessed by multiple threads without causing deadlock and/or broken state. Here I am referring to how to make an entire application especially a Swing application thread-safe.
on Oct 6, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Announcing the official release for version 5.3 of Substance look-and-feel.
on Sep 28, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
Announcing the release of Apache Pivot 1.3.
on Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss
This entry discuss how we can use JFreeChart and JasperReports to include dynamically generated charts into a JasperReport s' report. Technique included here can be used to include dynamically generated images or dynamically generated data sources as well.
on Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss

Mobile and Embedded

Entry posted to my new blog.
on Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss

Java Tools

This entry discuss how we can use JFreeChart and JasperReports to include dynamically generated charts into a JasperReport s' report. Technique included here can be used to include dynamically generated images or dynamically generated data sources as well.
on Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink | Discuss