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		Laird Nelson ljnelson@gmail.com Laird Nelson is happiest immersed in server-side frameworks and middleware, where he has spent the better part of nine years obsessed with software reuse. He has worked for both the Davids and Goliaths of the Boston area as engineer, architect, reuse evangelist, contractor and consultant. He also plays a mean Hammond B3. Weblogs Nimbus and Opacity This one tripped me up, and I thought I'd post it here. I have a case where I need to pour text into a `JTextField`, but have that `JTextField` look like a `JLabel`. So as I... Useful Swing Thing #1 In Microsoft Outlook, along with probably dozens of other desktop applications, pressing `ESC` just about anywhere will cause the current window you're in to be cancelled. Objects and Strings and the Wrangling Thereof (Part 2) In the prior entry, we learned that Java ships with several tools to standardize the conversion between... Objects and Strings and the Wrangling Thereof See if this little scenario sounds familiar. Anemic vs. Obese Domain Objects Child number two has kept me away from the blogosphere. As I write this, señor Nelson Jr. is busily learning how to access and destroy objects. Next up: garbage collection. Of Detachable Root Panes and Desktop Hopping Long, long, long time no post. A job change and a two-year-old will do that to you. On today's menu: how to make a `JRootPane` subclass that can pop itself in and out of... Cheap Hack I: rename your jar file, get a different Main-Class Here's a fun hack. I (like everyone else in the world) have a collection of utilities I take with me from job to job. It's served me well for several years now. These utilities are... Seventeenth century object design Hello, first of all. It's an honor to be part of the java.net weblogging community. A discussion...