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Java SE Desktop What's NewThe following is a chronologically ordered list of java.sun.com articles and Tech Tips related to Desktop Java, as well as a selection of Desktop Java engineer blogs. To view articles by technology area, please check out the documentation page. Note: Only more technical/code-oriented blogs are included below. You can read many other musings from our engineers at javadesktop.org, as well as those from engineers outside Sun. Subscribe to this page as an RSS feed! 
October 2006Blog: Ethan
Nicholas - What you should know about Secure Static Versioning
September 2006Blog: Shannon
Hickey - Top-Level Drop with Swing and Java SE 6
August 2006Blog: Josh Marinacci - The Big One, part 2 Josh goes over lots of info on how the Windows L&F is coming in Java SE 6.0 Blog: Josh Marinacci - The Big One Josh goes over lots of info on how the Windows L&F is coming in Java SE 6.0 Blog: Richard Bair - XMLHttpRequest and Swing Say that again? XMLHttpRequest and Swing? Yep, you heard me right. Rich has been experimenting with implementing a version of the esteemed XMLHttpRequest (from the Ajax world, of course!) for use with Swing apps... Blog: Alexander Potochkin - The Nightmare ButtonGroup Bug Alex talks about one remarkable bug, remarkable because it took an unusually long time to find a good solution, and then he had to fix several regressions, and finally completely rolled the fix back. Blog: Scott Violet - Cut, Copy, & Paste Scott presents a simple way to provide rich cut, copy and paste behavior in an application.
July 2006Blog: Chris Campbell - Java 2D Trickery: Light & Shadow In this installment Chris shows how to add a lighting effect to give flat shapes a 3D-ish appearance. Blog: Chris Campbell - Five More Easy Pieces Chris talks about five more Java2D goodies, this one includes a bunch of OGL tweaks. Blog: Chris Campbell - Java 2D Trickery: Soft Clipping The first installment in a series by Chris Campbell of Java 2D tips-and-tricks. In this first installment Chris demonstrates a technique for achieving a soft clipping effect. Blog: Alex Potochkin - JXTransformer: The power of Swing! Transformation of any Swing component... shear it, scale it, rotate it! Blog: Scott Violet - BeanShell + 2D = Instant Graphics Scott talks about using BeanShell to help you evaluate blocks of Java code during the development loop. Blog: Josh Marinacci - Getting Started With The Aerith Mapping Component If you've downloaded the code you may have noticed that the code for the map parts is missing. Only the binaries are provided in the JXMapViewer.jar file. That's because the map component has a brighter future than just a JavaOne demo. It is now the first component in the new SwingLabs project: The Swing Web Services components. Blog: Rich Bair - A (Barely) Better Looking Yahoo! News Demo Rich was greeted this afternoon by Hans Muller who begged him to upload a better looking demo for the Yahoo! News that he posted previously. Blog: Romain Guy - JavaOne Presentations with Audio Slides Slides and audio from the client talks at JavaOne 2006 are up!
June 2006Blog: Rich Bair - A Simple Yahoo! News Reader Richard's creates a simple Yahoo! News RSS reader JavaBean that youcan use in your own apps. Blog: Josh Marinacci - Aerith Code is Out! And is available under the BSD license... Blog: Rich Bair - Swing and Non Blocking JAX-WS A followup to Richard's last blog. Article: Artem Ananiev & Alla Redko - Using Headless Mode in the Java SE Platform This article explains how to use the headless mode capabilities of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, formerly referred to as J2SE). Blog: Rich Bair - Swing, JAX-WS, and JavaBeans JAX-WS can be a bit daunting, especially for the desktop developer. In this blog Rich shows a simple web service, simple form, and how to use JavaBeans to tie it all together.. Blog: Danny Coward - Java SE Deployment Demystified Danny talks about the twin technologies in Java SE that help with deploying your Java-based application: Java Plugin and Java Web Start. Blog: Scott Violet - Modern Heap View Scott presents a heap view demo that utilizes lots of pretty images and effects. Blog: Artem Ananiev - Improved top-level icon support in Java SE 6.0 Artem discusses the new setIconImages feature in Java SE 6.0. Article: Easier Launching of Java Web Start Applications Chet, Thomas, and Dana wrote this article after playing around with a demo (linked from the article) to make auto-launching of a webstart app a bit easier. Article: Joshua Marinacci - More Persistence for Client-Side Developers Java Persistence is a powerful technology designed to store all of your data objects in a full relational database without having to write a single line of SQL. Though originally created for the server side, Josh will show you how useful it can be in client applications. Article: John O'Conner - Creating a Sorted JList Component This article describes how to produce sorted lists and uses a simple application to demonstrate concepts. You can download all the demo source code using the link at the end of this article. Blog: Ethan Nicholas - Mnemonic Magic Swing's mnemonic system is based around two properties: mnemonic (or displayedMnemonic) and displayedMnemonicIndex. They're powerful enough to do everything you need, but then again, so is machine code... Blog: Hans Muller - JSR 296 Bows - Swing Application Framework On Tuesday May 15th the JCP Executive Committee approved JSR 296, "Swing Application Framework". I'm the spec lead for JSR 296 and this is the JCP equivalent of a birth announcement. A rather long and meandering birth announcement, with a web started demo at the end.
May 2006Blog: Richard Bair - The Unknown JavaBean What is a JavaBean? What is the JavaBean design pattern? If I asked that question in a room of a hundred people, I suspect fewer than 10 would really get it right.... Blog: Danny Coward - Simplifying a Swing Application coming in Java SE 7 The Beans Binding JSR promises to simplify that large chunk of your Swing application concerned with hooking up a GUI component to the data it represents... Blog: Chet Haase - Trigger Happy Triggers" are a recent addition to the Timing Framework. They are a simple abstraction of event handling; they encapsulate EventListener objects that your code would typically have to implement and start or stop given animations based on events that you specify.... Article: Josh Marinacci - An Introduction to Java Persistence for Client-Side Developers Josh gives us the skinny on how to get started on writting persistent desktop apps... Blog: Romain Guy - Extreme GUI Makeover 2006 Edition Scott, Shannon and I gave another session entitled Extreme GUI Makeover this year at JavaOne. As last year's, the room was packed which made us really happy... Blog: John O'Conner - A Simple Framework for Desktop Applications Designing desktop applications can be tricky. Threading, resource management, launching, shut down...there are a lot of things to think about. Nothing akin to rocket science, but lots of things can go wrong, and do. A desktop framework would bring much needed consistency to the task, providing structure and encouraging adoption of best practices for application design... Blog: Scott Violet - Ease of Swing Development - Beans Bindings A big part of what desktop developers have to write every day is component wiring code, or glue code. Glue code is the code that connects components to your application model.For example, connecting a slider's value propety to a property of the selected object in a table requires glue code.... Blog: John O'Conner - Professional Swing UIs with NetBeans Jan Stola, Tomas Pavek, and Scott Violet discussed the motivations behind the latest graphical user interface builder available in NetBeans. The NetBeans GUI Builder, once labeled Matisse, is available in NetBeans version 5 and later... Blog: Romain Guy - Aerith, a Very Cool Swing Demo Check out our premier Swing demo that uses Java2D, OpenGL,Timing Framework (for animations), SwingX, Matisse, Google Maps, Flickr, Yahoo! and some other cool stuff... Blog: Artem Ananiev - Using JPopupMenu in TrayIcon Tray icons, which are being introduced in Java SE 6.0, have several properties and methods corresponding to image for the icon, tooltip text, popup menu and ability to show some message to the user...
April 2006Blog: Chris Campbell - The World's Slowest Web Service What happens when a client-side guy dips his toes in the river of web services (JAX-WS)? Come for the absurdity, stay for the tutorial. Blog: Chris Campbell - Five Easy Pieces Chris talks about five new Java2D goodies, including how to do fading effects using AlphaComposite, OpenGL acceleration of LCD text, and more.
March 2006Article: John O'Conner - Using Java DB in Desktop Applications John describes how to download, install, integrate, and deploy Java DB within desktop Java technology applications, along with a demo application called Address Book that demonstrates how to work with Java DB as an embedded database. Blog: Josh Marinacci -Stuff to Play With: the EnumComboBox Josh describe his recent addition to SwingLabs, the EnumComboBoxModel, a cute little class that lets you stuff enums directly into your comboboxes with no extra work. Blog: Ethan Nicholas -Style Swing components using CSS Using the JAXX user interface framework, you can leverage the power of CSS to control the appearance of Swing components. This is a quick look at using CSS to make a calculator example more attractive. Blog: Romain Guy: SwingPainters Demo Romain presents a cool demo showing off the glossy effects you can create easily in Swing with painters. Blog: Hans Muller - MultiSplitPane: Splitting Without Nesting One aspect of many docking GUIs is support for reconfiguring tiled subwindows by dragging shared subwindow edges. MultiSplitPane and MultiSplitLayout support arbitraily complex tiled layouts that can be reconfigured interactively and programatically. Article: Jack Conradson - Understanding JDIC File-Type Associations This article dives into the file-type associations feature in JDIC. Article: Chet Haase - Time Again In the article "Timing is Everything," Chet covered the basics of how the core Java timers work, how more feature-rich timing systems work, and how my Timing Framework project works in particular. I have recently updated that project with several new interesting capabilities, and it is time once again to talk about time.
February 2006Blog: Scott Violet - Architecting Applications 3: the Controller This is the third blog in a series on architecting applications. In the first blog I discussed the application I'm going to develop, how it would be architected, and briefly went over the model. In the second blog I motivated the need for an Application class that is suitable for typical Swing based Apps, as well as the functionality it should provide. In this third installment I'll go over the role of the controller as used in the MVC architecture. As promised, this blog has a runnable demo. Blog: Hans Muller - A Reusable BuddyList Component How to build a generic buddy list cell renderer. File under Advanced JList Hacking. Blog: Josh Marinacci - All hail the PropertyChangeListener Often when building an app you need to hook multiple components together so that when one component changes others must do something. When you are building custom components, there's often the temptation to build a custom set of listeners to go along with it. Josh recommends you try property change listeners instead. Article: Smooth Moves Earlier Chet Haase blogged about some of the factors that contribute to choppy animations. Part Two of the discussion is his just-published java.net article, Smooth Moves, which examines some of the solutions to animation problems. Blog: Thomas Pavek - Getting to know GroupLayout, part 1 GroupLayout is a new layout manager that was developed as a Swing Labs project in conjunction with Matisse, the new GUI builder in NetBeans 5.0. Though the layout manager was originally designed to suit the GUI builder needs, it is also quite handy for manual coding. This article will help you get up to speed with how GroupLayout works and shows you how you can start building GUIs using GroupLayout, whether you choose to use Matisse or write your own code. Article: Building GUIs with SwiXml 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. Blog: Chet Haase - Make Your Animations Less Ch-Ch-Choppy This is Part One of a two-part series. Part One examines some of the factors that contribute to choppy animations. Part Two (an upcoming article on java.net) examines some of the solutions to those problems. Blog: Shuna Wu - Introduction Here's something interesting in a java.net blog: It's in both Chinese and English. Shuna Wu leads the internationalization (i18n) Quality Engineering team and plans to blog about the challenges of testing Java SE i18n, tell you about new i18n features, and ask for your feedback about i18n. Blog: Alexander Potochkin - Debugging Swing, Part 3 The long way to find a good solution. Blog: Shannon Hickey - Drag And Drop Shannon Hickey introduces new support in Java SE 6 for choosing drop actions in the Swing Drag and Drop API. Article: Using the Desktop API in Java SE 6 This article describes the new Desktop API, which allows Java applications to interact with the default applications associated with specific file types on the host platform. Blog: Romain Guy - Make Swing... erm... Swing! |
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