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Chet is an architect in the Java Client Group at Sun Microsystems. He spends most of his time working on graphics and performance issues and futures.

JavaOne 2006: Ideas for Desktop Talks?

What makes a good conference? Okay, the quality of the candy between sessions is pretty important, but arguably of more importance (at least in justifying the cost to your boss) is the quality and applicability of the technical sessions.

In the interest of having the Greatest JavaOne Ever, I'm putting out this request: what would you like to see at the conference? What are the must-see topics? What speakers should we try to get? What are particular talks you'd like to hear? What are cretive new ideas for the conference overall, or for covering particular topics?

The JavaOne organizers have posted forums this year to help collect this feedback. If you have feedback for the Desktop Track, please contribute to the Desktop forum. Likewise for the other tracks, or for the conference overall. Go to the forums and let us know...

Two Items Walk into a ToolBar...

Some of us recently visited the Sun offices in St. Petersburg, Russia, where we have lots of great client engineers working on AWT, Swing, and 2D. We spent most of the week working on various desktop development issues (like planning the features in the next release after Mustang).

But the most important contribution of our efforts there might be in the field of Swing Humor, a niche that has been all too bereft of attention in recent years, since the original classic joke of naming and trademarking the library with the generic and unmemorable monicker “Java Foundation Classes” when all of our developers know it as simply “Swing”.

In an effort to inject some badly-needed humor into this area of Java development, I offer the following joke. Shannon Hickey and I worked on this one intermittently during the course of an evening, finally arriving at this version:

	Two items walk into a ToolBar.
	The bartender says, “Can I get you a menu?”
	“No thanks, we're looking for a little action.”

	An item walks into a ToolBar.
	The bartender says, “Where's your friend?”
	“Big event last night; he's disabled.”

	An item walks into a ToolBar.
	The bartender says, “Can I get you a drink?”
	“No thanks, I'm a lightweight.”

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LCD Text: Anti-Aliasing on the Fringe
Anti-aliasing helps with the appearance of text, but on LCD monitors you can do even better: you can use the spatial arrangement of the red, green, and blue parts of each pixel to achieve an even better anti-aliasing effect. This feature is coming to Java in Mustang, and in this article, Chet Haase explains how it works. Jul. 26, 2005

Timing is Everything
Chet Haase considers what it now takes to add dynamic effects, animations, or time-based events to a Java application and proposes and details a timing framework. Feb. 15, 2005

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