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Information on the new SwingX 1.6.3 release.
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, I...
How to obtain values from the Event Dispatch Thread.
I mentioned during my BOF at JavaOne a new component that is close to ready for moving into SwingX: JXScrollMap.
Part of the way that SwingX works is that members first join the incubator project. Members contribute ideas to the incubator, flesh them out, and eventually bring them into SwingX. The incubator contains lots of stuff from really mature ideas to things that aren't. Some of the ideas...
SwingLabs BOF Presentation Slides
Putting our heads in the sand is not a good development strategy.
My first session this moring at JavaOne was Deploying Java Applications on the Web. It was quite good as it covered some of the newer techniques that have been added to the latest 1.6_x updates. As with any good session, I walked away with some knowledge that I hadn't entered with, but what struck me the most was the legacy of JavaFX. While JavaFX was mentioned (in passing once...
