Ed Ort interviews Josh Marinacci in this java.net Community Corner 2009 podcast, recorded at JavaOne. Josh talks about his work with JavaFX and the new Java Store.
Having introduced SwingLabs' JXMapViewer and JXMapKit in a previous article, Joshua Marinacci puts these components to work by showing how you can bring in geographic data from external sources and use Painters to create custom geodata GUIs.
Mapping is a common feature of many applications, and a new component from SwingLabs makes it easy to add maps to your Java GUI application. Joshua Marinacci shows you how to adding maps to your Swing app can be as simple as dropping a JXMapViewer component into a NetBeans layout.
Generating PDFs used to require proprietary and/or difficult-to-use tools, but the combination of the Flying Saucer XHTML renderer and the iText PDF library makes it easy to generate PDFs from a variety of markup formats. Flying Saucer founder Joshua Marinacci shows how it's done.
Continuing his introduction to the EJB 3 Java Persistence API as seen by the desktop developer, Joshua Marinacci shows how to put together a complete and fairly sophisticatedaddress book program, with one-to-many relationships, useful inheritance approaches, and other powerful techniques.
The EJB3 Java Persistence API may have been meant for enterprise developers, but there's no reason that desktop developers can't use it. Joshua Marinacci shows how a lightweight combination of Hibernate, HSQLDB, and the JPA can make saving address book entries a snap.
Challenged by the complexities of GridBagLayout and the ugliness of wiring all of that GUI layout code into your application? SwiXml offers an alternative: declare your GUI in XML markup and let SwiXml wire it up to your application. Joshua Marinacci shows how it's done.
Java Web Start offers new solutions to old problems of distributing J2SE applications to end users. In the second installment of his look at JWS, Java Sketchbook columnist Joshua Marinacci looks at the JWS sandbox, options for getting out of it, speeding up downloads with Pack 200 compression, and...
Desktop developers have long desired a more practical means of deploying applications than just dropping files on a client machine and expecting the user to do a java -jar, or a script/batch file equivalent. Java Web Start addresses not only this user experience problem, but also helps with...
Joshua Marinacci continues his investigation of Java Desktop Integration Components (JDIC) with a look into the SaverBeans API, which allows you to create Java-based screensavers.
It hasn't been easy to create a Java desktop application that goes beyond look and feel to actually do things native apps do--register file associations, communicate status via a tray icon, use the platform's browser, etc. But as Joshua Marinacci reports, JDesktop Integration Components may change...
Programs that expose themselves to programming by the user are few and far between--an Emacs Lisp macro here, an AppleScript-able Mac app there. It's a pity, since scriptability gives users great power. With Java, embedding JavaScript as a scripting language is pretty easy. Joshua Marinacci...
HTML is everywhere; not just on the Web, but as a styled-text and hyperlinking standard for help systems, online stores, email, and many other applications. For these many needs, there are many Java-based HTML rendering toolkits. This second part of Joshua Marinacci's series looks at the...
HTML is everywhere; not just on the Web, but also as a styled-text and hyperlinking standard for help systems, online stores, email, and many other applications. And for these many needs, there are many Java-based HTML rendering toolkits. Part 1 of Joshua Marinacci's two-part series looks at the...
Java's imaging APIs aren't just for desktop applications anymore! In this article, Joshua Marinacci looks at how servlets and JSPs can use the Java2D graphics API to create on-demand graphics for web users.
Joshua Marinacci built a distributed system for storing, searching, and updating small pieces of information. In this installment, he shows how to build an attractive thick client with Swing.
Joshua Marinacci wants to build a distributed system for storing, searching, and updating small pieces of information. In this article, he shows how Java-friendly standards like XML and HTTP will make up the foundation of his BrainFeed web application..
Swing applications don't often feel or behave like native apps. It doesn't have to be this way. Joshua Marinacci's three-part series concludes with polishing touches such as desktop icons, file selectors, and splash screens.
Swing applications don't often feel or behave like native apps. It doesn't have to be this way. Joshua Marinacci's continues with a look at providing double-clickable executables and filetype associations.
Designing a tag library for programmers is one thing; designing it for non-programmers is quite another. Joshua Marinacci shows off three tag library redesigns and how they make life easier for his target audience.
Swing applications don't often feel or behave like native apps. It doesn't have to be this way. Joshua Marinacci's three-part series begins by improving an app's appearance and menus, and offers a way to get attention via the Windows taskbar and Mac OS X dock.
Just as CSS allows you to maintain a consistent look across a complex web site, you can use the same technique to achieve this consistency across many screens in a complicated Swing application.
