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Greasemonkey Goodness
Firefox's Greasemonkey extension is another piece of web technology that changes the game... are there any analogs for Java desktop applications? We've had to put up with poor user experiences in applications ever since the dawn of the desktop computer. Being able to fix annoying website UI glitches is a wonderful experience. —
Ben Galbraith
Distributed Collections, and Maps
Have you wondered whether it is possible to create a distributed Map, or a Collection over JXTA? There's no reason to wonder any longer. The JXTA platform is well suited for the task, and provides several mechanisms which allow a variety of features which can be offered by such applications. —
Mohamed Abdelaziz
NetBeans 4.1 Tip: Move "Scanning Project Classpaths" Dialog to the Background
Tired of waiting for NetBeans to scan your project's classpath? Check out this tip on how to push that process into the background. Plus, the latest news on what's happening at NetBeans Software Day. —
Brian Leonard
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Re: Open Source: Not just hobbyists
This is somewhat disingenuous. Suggesting that changing the way money flows won't effect the software industry is... interesting. You may be right. But historical examples show that changing the flow of money is usually catastrophic. The idea of the flow of money is an interesting one. Unlike others have suggested I don't think that it will entirely dry up, but there's every reasonable expectation that in many cases free software can act as a substitute (in the Econ 101 sense) good for paid software. Given the presence of a lower cost substitute, the average amount of money spent on that good will (should) decrease. —
TWAIN / SANE / WIA Support
Neither Java Imaging nor JAI have basic support for standards like TWAIN or platform-specific implementations/abstractions like SANE (Unix, Linux, OSX) or WIA (Win32). Are there any plans to support these standards? Using JNI is a bad workaround for a platform independant language... java. —
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AJAX with J2EE
"Anyone who has used Flickr, GMail, Google Suggest, or Google Maps will realize that a new breed of dynamic web applications is emerging." The key is the use of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) features to create dynamic client side applications that work across systems and on all the major browsers. In Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX) With Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, Greg Murray shows how AJAX works with such J2EE technologies as servlets, JSP's, Java Server Faces, and more.
Calendar utilities in JDesktop Native components
There are widgets that developers keep building over and over again. It seems as if a calendar widget is one of them. In the Core Java Tech Tip Calendar utilities in JDesktop Native components, you will see how to use the prebuilt widgets to pop-up a monthly calendar view to pick dates. You can also use a related widget to display and select special events, certain dates, and ranges of dates.
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