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SDN Article: The New Modality API in Mustang http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/mustang/modality/?feed=JSC Mustang introduces new dialog modality choices that let you specify whether a modal dialog blocks just one document, its application, or the entire toolkit. This article describes the new modality features and features an example (with code, of course) of using them. 2006-01-06 Jan 06, 2006 bucket/bu/19/b0b82948 Video Presentation: Desktop Java in Action http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/2006/01/video_presentat.html If you speak french, you can download a video of Desktop Java in Action. Otherwise, get the slides. Copyright 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Romain Guy 2006-01-04T23:25-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates 325 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/5f159d7a NetBeans with anti aliasing http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/2006/01/netbeans_with_a.html I said it several times: I use Eclipse. But yet another reason for me to use Eclipse instead of NetBeans is now gone. Copyright 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Romain Guy 2006-01-02T15:42-08:00 Community: Java Tools text/html O'Reilly and Associates 325 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/f9414e11 First Class Drag and Drop Support in Mustang http://weblogs.java.net/blog/shan_man/archive/2006/01/first_class_dra.html Shannon Hickey introduces major enhancements to Swing Drag and Drop in Mustang, and also recounts his recent once-in-a-lifetime visit to Saint Petersburg, Russia, with pictures from the trip. Copyright 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Shannon Hickey 2006-01-02T15:41-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop,J2SE,Swing text/html O'Reilly and Associates 317 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/ffd65ba6 Two new flash demos and NetBeans Module update http://weblogs.java.net/blog/claudio/archive/2005/12/two_new_flash_d_1.html The community is awesome to provide feedback about quality and features. The coments left to the previous blog, made me improve the NetBeans Module Startup Settings I am developing, see the screenshot. I created two flash demos to show how to add custom swing widgets to the palette manager, the other flash demo shows how to use GridbagLayout and Freedesign (aka: Matisse) each one with different JPanels, but inside one JPanel (or JFrame). Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Claudio Miranda 2005-12-29T22:57-08:00 Community: NetBeans text/html O'Reilly and Associates 402 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/dc762bff Swinging Java IDEs http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/12/swinging_java_i.html After IntelliJ and NetBeans have been decorated with pictures of scantily clad women and rhino-shaped "Apply" buttons, it's JDeveloper's turn. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kirill Grouchnikov 2005-12-29T11:05-08:00 HASH(0x403d20ec) text/html O'Reilly and Associates 275 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/e1ced827 JAI 1.1.3-beta Webstart binaries now available http://jai-webstart.dev.java.net The Java Advanced Imaging 1.1.3-beta is now available for immediate download on java.net. Please go to the JAI project home page at <a href="https://jai.dev.java.net"> https://jai.dev.java.net</a> and click on the <a href="https://jai.dev.java.net/#Downloads">Downloads</a> link. The changes in JAI 1.1.3-beta with respect to JAI 1.1.3-alpha are listed in the JAI 1.1.3-beta README file on the <a href="https://jai.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html">binary builds</a> page. 2005-12-23 Dec 23, 2005 bucket/bu/19/fd4f1b62 http://javadesktop.org/javanet_images/proj-spot.gif NetBeans Look and Feel Competition http://www.netbeans.org/competition/look-and-feel.html Have you customised your NetBeans IDE look & feel? Are you using a non-standard look & feel, or are you using the Substance plug-in to change NetBeans' look? Have you tweaked the L&F in some other way? If so, share your customisation and you could win one of three iPod Nanos, 10 USB flash memory sticks or 30 NetBeans T-Shirts! Competition details are <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/competition/look-and-feel.html">here</a>. 2005-12-23 Dec 23, 2005 bucket/bu/19/02be76c6 Spicing up your JTabbedPane - part II http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/12/spicing_up_your_1.html The second part of the series that describes the additional capabilities that you can get on your tabbed panes. This entry describes vetoable close buttons and vertical tabs. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kirill Grouchnikov 2005-12-22T12:49-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates 275 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/9d9340d0 Automated visual verification is hard http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2005/12/automated_visua.html With the flat 2D still-life style components we have today it's hard to automate visual verification. What are we going to do when GUI's are dancing and singing away? How will we be able to automatically verify it's dancing the right way and not stumbling around? Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us David Herron 2005-12-21T16:47-08:00 HASH(0x403e7bd8) text/html O'Reilly and Associates 333 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/da40e90b Mustang Release Contents (JSR 270): Early Draft Review http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mreinhold/archive/2005/12/mustang_release.html Just in time for the holidays, the Early Draft Review version of the <a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=270">JSR 270</a> specification is <a href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr270">now available</a>. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Mark Reinhold 2005-12-21T12:08-08:00 Community: JDK,Community: Java Communications,J2SE text/html O'Reilly and Associates 188 java.net Weblogs bucket/bu/19/f0b193a1 JavaLobby: 2005 "renaissance in desktop Java" http://www.javalobby.org/nl/archive/jlnews_20051220o.html JavaLobby's Rick Ross said some nice things about desktop Java in his <a href="http://www.javalobby.org/nl/archive/jlnews_20051220o.html">Obligatory "Year In Review" Column</a>: Performance gains and enhancements in key Java libraries have led to a virtual renaissance in desktop Java. Examples of what you can achieve with Swing (such as those at Romain Guy's blog) prove that Java is actually quite well suited for building up-to-date desktop applications. By the way, you can see Romain's blog entries <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/gfx">here</a>. 2005-12-21 Dec 21, 2005 bucket/bu/19/674efe9c JPasswordField with an empty echo character: the fix http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2005/12/jpasswordfield.html Learn why my last attempt at a password field with an empty space echo character failed and how to fix it. And of course a demo is thrown in for good measure. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Scott Violet 2005-12-19T15:38-08:00 J2SE text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 301 bucket/bu/19/3f6fa414 3D Java Strategy Game Reaches the Winner's Circle http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=398 Realtime strategy game Tribal Trouble from <a href="http://www.oddlabs.com"> OddLabs.com</a> was ranked number two in the just announced "Game of the Year" <a href="http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=398"> results from GameTunnel.com</a>. Tribal Trouble gained the honor for being fun, entertaining, and easy to play. We're sure that the fact that the game is pure Java had a hand in the victory too. Check out the <a href="http://www.oddlabs.com/screenshots.php"> screenshots here</a>. Vikings! 2005-12-19 Dec 19, 2005 bucket/bu/19/e86f8d73 http://www.gametunnel.com/images/05reviews/tribal_robert_03.jpg JRockit 5.0 on desktop - show me the money http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/12/jrockit_50_on_d.html After numerous press releases showing that BEA's JRockit is the fastest JVM around, I have decided to try it out for a desktop application. The result - it may be the fastest for the application servers, but it most certainly is not the best for the desktop. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kirill Grouchnikov 2005-12-13T08:24-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 275 bucket/bu/19/8011966f Substance 2.1 official release http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/12/substance_21_of_5.html Packed with a lot of new features (and a lot of bug fixes), Substance look-and-feel has reached the official release 2.1 Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kirill Grouchnikov 2005-12-12T11:40-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 275 bucket/bu/19/ff748184 JavaOne Excitement Is In the Air http://weblogs.java.net/blog/amvernon/archive/2005/12/javaone_excitem.html It isn't holiday excitement that I am experiencing right now, but the thrill of having nearly 1400 papers to review for the 2006 JavaOne Conference. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Annette Vernon 2005-12-07T16:37-08:00 JavaOne text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 399 bucket/bu/19/28f98ef7 Swing Depot Update: InfoNode http://www.javadesktop.org/rollups/components/index.html#infonode We've just updated the screenshots in the InfoNode section of the <a href="http://www.javadesktop.org/rollups/components/index.html">Swing Depot's Component Suites page</a>. The new pictures show the just-released version 1.4.0 of NNL Technology's <a href="http://www.infonode.net/">InfoNode</a> products. 2005-12-08 Dec 08, 2005 bucket/bu/19/72aa6f00 http://javadesktop.org/javanet_images/depot.gif JFreeChart 1.0.0 Released http://www.javadesktop.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=20547&tstart=0 A new version of JFreeChart, the very popular free charting library for the Java platform, is now available for download from <a href="http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/">http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/</a>. You can <a href="http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/jfreechart-1.0.0-demo.jnlp">run the JFreeChart Demo</a> (no certificate required!) via Java Web Start. Don't miss the oddly hypnotic PieChart3DDemo2 (under Pie Charts); another interesting one is the DifferenceChartDemo2 (under Miscellaneous). 2005-12-07 Dec 07, 2005 bucket/bu/19/010bf806 The Next Wave of GUIs: Project Matisse and NetBeans IDE 5.0 http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/violet_pavek_qa.html Project Matisse creators Scott Violet and Tomas Pavek discuss how the NetBeans IDE 5.0 simplifies development of GUIs and results in a cross-platform visual designer. 2005-12-07 Dec 07, 2005 bucket/bu/19/ebebf8ec http://java.sun.com/images/featureart/matisse_netbeanside5.jpg Swing Sightings Preview: JSwat 3.0 http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/ JSwat is a graphical Java debugger front-end that uses the Java Platform Debugger Architecture and is based on the NetBeans Platform. JSwat is open-source software, freely available in both binary and source code form. Its features include breakpoints with conditionals; colorized source code display with code navigator; movable display panels showing threads, call stack, visible variables, and loaded classes; command interface for more advanced features; and Java-like expression evaluation, including method invocation. Check out <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/jswat/jswat_big_shot.gif">this screenshot</a>. 2005-12-06 Dec 06, 2005 bucket/bu/19/b2b53ea2 http://javadesktop.org/javanet_images/swing_sightings_preview.gif Swing Pointers List Updated http://cld.blog-city.com/swing_pointers_updated.htm <a href="http://cld.blog-city.com/">Charles Ditzel</a> has produced a new, improved version of <a href="http://files.blog-city.com/files/aa/1263/b/swingrocks2.html">Swing Pointers</a>, his very handy page of links for developers using the Java SE platform to develop GUIs. He promises to keep it up-to-date and welcomes your e-mailed suggestions. 2005-12-06 Dec 06, 2005 bucket/bu/19/3d42052d Variations of JPasswordField http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2005/12/variations_of_j.html Learn how to create alternate views of JPasswordField. In the proess I'll cover portions of Swing's text architecture. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Scott Violet 2005-12-05T15:37-08:00 Community: JDK text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 301 bucket/bu/19/0d179f6f NetBeans Performance Profiler - Now for the Mac! http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tor?entry=performance_profiler_now_for_the <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tor">Tor Norbye</a> blogged Thursday that <a href="http://profiler.netbeans.org/docs/help/whatsnew-m11.html">milestone 11</a> of the <a href="http://profiler.netbeans.org/">NetBeans Performance Profiler</a> has a big new feature: support for Mac OS X! If you're a Mac user, please try out this feature and give them feedback. 2005-12-05 Dec 05, 2005 bucket/bu/19/0f7e8f83 JavaPolis 2005 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/2005/12/javapolis_2005.html JavaPolis 2005 is taking place next week. If you want to meet two new members of the Swing Team and see some cool stuff, come to Antwerp. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Romain Guy 2005-12-05T02:49-08:00 HASH(0x40401544) text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 325 bucket/bu/19/3c824699 Swing Sightings Preview: RageWork http://www.ragework.com/ RageWork 2.4 is a cross-platform file manager designed to manage your files, documents, and resources, and to do a lot of cool things. The key features of this release are fast sub-folder access, quick searching, a filter view, the ability to split and merge files, WWW editor validators, auto file completion, auto-change encoding in text-based files, bookmarks for network clients, the ability to resume file transfers in FTP, auto-recognition of encoding in FTP, tooltips for folder description, and improvements to status, error messages, virtual folders, the UI, and performance. You can <a href="http://www.softrage.com/webstart/ragework.jnlp">try it out</a> using Java Web Start. Or just check out the screenshots: <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard.gif">1</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard2.gif">2</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard3.gif">3</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard4.gif">4</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard5.gif">5</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard6.gif">6</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard7.gif">7</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard8.gif">8</a> <a href="http://javadesktop.org/images/S23/RageWork/Clipboard9.gif">9</a> 2005-12-02 Dec 02, 2005 bucket/bu/19/cd11aede http://javadesktop.org/javanet_images/swing_sightings_preview.gif Featured Project: Scenic https://scenic.dev.java.net/ The Scenic project, newly graduated from the <a href="https://javadesktop-incubator.dev.java.net/">JavaDesktop incubator</a>, provides a scene-based 2D graphics library for the Java platform. (In a previous incarnation, Scenic was a C++ library that ran only on Linux.) The Scenic project owner would like users and testers; contributions are also welcome. See the <a href="https://scenic.dev.java.net/">Scenic project home</a> for details. 2005-12-01 Dec 01, 2005 bucket/bu/19/1102c47b http://javadesktop.org/javanet_images/proj-spot.gif Proposal for uniform support of third-party components in custom look-and-feels http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/11/proposal_for_un.html This posting proposes an approach for uniform support of third-party components in custom look-and-feels. The approach has been successfully adopted in Liquid and Substance look-and-feels. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kirill Grouchnikov 2005-11-28T13:21-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 275 bucket/bu/19/6e5b5143 Facade, gaming redefined http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/2005/11/faade_gaming_re.html Every now and then, a group of few people come up with a bright idea that shakes the world of video games. Façade might just be one of them and it's Java powered. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Romain Guy 2005-11-28T20:07-08:00 Community: Java Games text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 325 bucket/bu/19/d491ad7e Jake2 on Slashdot http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/11/28/1246209.shtml?tid=112&tid=108&tid=10 <a href="http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html">Jake2</a>, bytonic's Java 3D port of Quake2, has been featured in the Slashdot post <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/11/28/1246209.shtml?tid=112&tid=108&tid=10">Quake2 Ported to Java, Play Via the Web</a>. [We previewed a Swing Sighting of Jake2 here last May; the full writeup is in <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/S22.html#02">Swing Sightings #22</a>.] There's been lots of interesting feedback to the Slashdot post. Here's one quote: "Runs great on my 1.2 GHz G4 with 640 MB of RAM in OS X 10.4.3. ... This is the coolest use of Java I've ever seen." 2005-11-28 Nov 28, 2005 bucket/bu/19/89541673 Deliver Your Java Application in One-JAR! http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2005/11/deliver_your_ja.html [This blog entry from last week has had some interesting responses.] Packing a simple application I discovered I can't include the driver of the MySql into the JAR of my application. This is a feature of the JAR tool that force the users to download several files or to use an external unzip tool in order to unzip the files before running the aplication - very odd. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Felipe Gaucho 2005-11-23T11:10-08:00 Deployment text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 229 bucket/bu/19/81b91cf9 Debugging Swing - is it really difficult ? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2005/11/debugging_swing_1.html Do we need to invent something to make it easier, or it is not a problem at all ? Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Alexander Potochkin 2005-11-23T01:57-08:00 Swing text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 375 bucket/bu/19/e0ad4708 Help Wanted: Intern to Spread the Word http://weblogs.java.net/blog/walrath/archive/2005/11/help_wanted_int_1.html If you're a student with a knack for creating Web content, do we have an internship for you! Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kathy Walrath 2005-11-22T16:41-08:00 HASH(0x403e1194) text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 257 bucket/bu/19/ac922409 Why the JEditorPane is important to the JavaHelp ContentViewer http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brinkley/archive/2005/11/why_the_jeditor.html With planning for the next realease of the JDK underway, swing development teams are looking at some promising changes that will impact the JavaHelp implementation. This blog looks at why the JEditorPane and the associated changes are important and why your vote as a JavaHelp user is important. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Roger Brinkley 2005-11-22T13:06-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 212 bucket/bu/19/9eadcad0 The Fast Way to $5000 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2005/11/httppicsebaysta.html eBay just lauched a developer challenge. Use NetBeans to get your unfair advantage. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Brian Leonard 2005-11-18T18:14-08:00 HASH(0x4040f05c) text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 287 bucket/bu/19/4d4a9671 Changes to Actions in 1.6 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/2005/11/changes_to_acti.html Read up on the changes to Actions in 1.6. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Scott Violet 2005-11-21T08:16-08:00 Community: JDK text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 301 bucket/bu/19/cc496bdd Hardware Acceleration in Mustang http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2016&messageID=30387#30387 A <a href="http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2016&tstart=0">recent thread</a> on the <a href="http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=25">Mustang Snapshots: Project Feedback forum</a> has discussed graphics acceleration the OpenGL pipeline, DirectX, and so on. Here's a nice quote (and no, we didn't pay linuxhippy to say this): In my eyes Java2d is one of the most powerful, fast and most stable rendering engines around - no commercial engine I know can provide this feature-richness nor performance. 2005-11-18 Nov 18, 2005 bucket/bu/19/27d036b1 Take the Swing Text Survey (Please!) http://weblogs.java.net/blog/walrath/archive/2005/11/take_the_swing_1.html XHTML, JavaScript, plugins, and more: If you have opinions about the features Swing text components should support in the future, please take the Swing text survey. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Kathy Walrath 2005-11-17T12:44-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 257 bucket/bu/19/0a1f7c40 Desktop Articles on java.sun.com http://java.sun.com Recently, java.sun.com has published a bunch of articles relevant to desktop developers. The November 15 <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/">Core Java Technologies Tech Tips</a> covers two new Mustang features: <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2005/tt1115.html#1">splash screens in mustang</a> and <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2005/tt1115.html#2">table sorting and filtering</a>. Another article, <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/mustang/systemtray/">New System Tray Functionality in Mustang</a> introduces you to the proposed SystemTray and TrayIcon classes. <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/GUI/jlist/">Customize Your JList Display</a> shows you how to use a customized ListCellRenderer to improve the usability (and good looks) of a JList. Finally, <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/Meet-Eng/haase/">Meet Chet Haase</a> is a meet-the-programmer type of interview with JavaSE's client architect. (If that's not enough Chet for you, check out <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/">his blog</a>.) 2005-11-17 Nov 17, 2005 bucket/bu/19/19fa5994 JFrame.add() contentPane Pain: The Complete Story http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hansmuller/archive/2005/11/jframeadd_conte.html Early on in Swing's evolution we added a runtime exception that warned developers not to write JFrame.add(myComponent) and it has been raising hackles ever since. And it's my fault. Since Graham Hamilton covered my transgression in his My Favorite (Dead) Java Boilerplate blog, I thought I'd tell the complete story. Copyright 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Hans Muller 2005-11-16T11:35-08:00 Community: JavaDesktop text/html O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 16 bucket/bu/19/f8965f42