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GUI

Information on the new SwingX 1.6.3 release.
on Feb 2, 2012 | Permalink | Discuss
Recently I had the privilege of writing an article for Java Tech Journal about using HTML5 Server Sent Events in a JSF 2 User Interface.
on Jan 4, 2012 | Permalink | Discuss
In my last blog I’ve introduced JavaFX 2.0 beta, describing an initial port of JavaFX Balls, also in beta stage at that time. Now I finally finish JavaFX Balls 3. Look ma, no design! I don’t pretend to be a designer, and the consequence is that when I make a mashup of animation, video and web, that’s the result. Get the source code here. I’ve added new layers of content...
on Nov 25, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
Welcome java 7 part 3 -NIO 2 JSR 203   So like the coin project, in the NIO 2 there aren't unprecedented features in this e -specification, but now it's possible do some easier work I/Os in java. With the class java.io.Files are possible to perform several operations in simple mode. For that it needs and uses the java.io.file.Path, this interface represents files and...
on Oct 10, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
On the new JavaFX 2.0.2 beta release for Mac OS.
on Oct 5, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
How JavaFX 2.0 takes the best ideas from Swing, Flash, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and brings it all together in one powerful technology.
on Sep 18, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
This short post contains useful hints about finding the correct size for your JavaFX windows.
on Jun 23, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
One of the key features of JavaFX 2.0 is an ability to embed JavaFX content into Swing applications. This post provides some details about how it should be done.
on Jun 2, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
When programming in Java, everywhere I go I stumble over "dead" technology. That's a mess, since that technology was really great and still would be very useful. But some day, "someone" just declared it's death. But why?
on Apr 24, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
We needed to display modal dialogs in full-screen mode. On Mac this proved to be in impossible using normal JDialogs, so we had to come up with an alternative solution.
on Apr 6, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
The first rule of Swing programming is to always interact with Swing components in the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT, for short).  Swing is single-threaded (as a lot of UI toolkits are) and as such it can only makes guarantees about the state of Swing components when interacted with properly on the EDT.  Some Swing methods are thread-safe, such as JComponent.repaint.  Recently,...
on Jan 19, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
Announcing the release of Apache Pivot 2.0.
on Jan 19, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss
Ruby Red, the first full release of Leonardo Sketch is ready for download.  Leonardo is a desktop open source drawing program written entirely in Java.
on Nov 23, 2010 | Permalink | Discuss
How to obtain values from the Event Dispatch Thread.
on Nov 15, 2010 | Permalink | Discuss
The question of how to combine Swing and Apache Pivot components comes up often enough that I thought I would write a quick blog entry about it.
on Oct 12, 2010 | Permalink | Discuss
Why did JavaFX 1.x divide the Java community so much?  How does the new 2.0 roadmap fit into the current (and future) landscape of RIAs?  Is Paul the Octopus on Twitter?  Some or none of these questions may be answered in this blog post.
on Sep 24, 2010 | Permalink | Discuss

Education

A preview of the pure Java version of VisualLangLab is now available. The GUI, and other characteristics, are virtually identical to the previous version, but the JAR file is very much smaller as it does not bundle the Scala API jars.
on Jan 5, 2012 | Permalink | Discuss
I'll like to let you know the dates of JCertif 2011 the biggest Java Community Event in Africa. About 800+ attendees from many countries. We will be happy to have you as Speaker on Developer Tools, Java, Open Source, Mobile Apps...or Business solutions. Still hesitating to join JCertif 2011 ? See the past event : JCertif 2010 and this blog post
on Jan 1, 2011 | Permalink | Discuss

Community

Google makes their extensive map collection available free of charge. Now it is seen in sites all over the web, but in this entry, I'll show you how simple it is to use in Java!
on Oct 16, 2010 | Permalink | Discuss

Accessibility

 The www.abelski.com web site offers free (for personal and academic usage) courses about various topics in software development. The site focuses on Java technologies. 
on Oct 4, 2010 | Permalink | Discuss