A Swing User Interface
Today is a great day… I am done with school! I will finally get my M.S. in Computer Science. Today was also the day we finished our final assignment. Our goal was to write some sort of a component-oriented/network-distributed VNC clone. I ended up in charge of the UI that I had to crank out [...]
Persistence Made Easy with Groovy and JPA
I was recently looking into using JPA (Java Persistence API) in desktop applications to persist the UI’s state. After all, that’s what JSR 296‘s reference implementation relies on to save the frame’s size and position. There are several JPA implementations available out here and I have chosen TopLink from Oracle, as it comes bundled with [...]
JPA and Groovy
I have recently been playing with JPA, TopLink and Java DB (Apache Derby if you prefer) to manage date in Java SE applications. And I love those tools! It then dawned to me that I could make things even easier by using Groovy. Unfortunately, TopLink doesn’t seem to play nice with Groovy as none of [...]
NetBeans Day et Sun Tech Days
Je serai à Paris du 19 au 21 mars pour participer au NetBeans Day et aux Sun Tech Days. Lundi, je présenterai le support des JSR 295 et 296 dans NetBeans et Matisse. Mardi, je présenterai la session Extreme GUI Makeover 2006 que Scott Violet, ancien architecte Swing, Shannon Hickey et moi-même avions préparé pour [...]
High-Quality Components for Swing
David Qiao, from JIDE Software, announces on his blog that the JIDE Common Layer will be open sourced shortly. Considering the quality of JIDE’s offerings, this excellent news for the community. If you haven’t tried JIDE, now it’s time to give it a look. The website offers many WebStart demos that demonstrate JIDE’s products quality.
Nimbus, Source Code and Demo
Jasper Potts published a few updates about the upcoming Nimbus look and feel. First off, you can try it out using the following Java Web Start SwingSet demo: You can also join the java.net project to get the source code. Remember it’s still in early stages and there’s a lot of work to be done. [...]
Filthy Rich Clients Book Cover
Prentice Hall recently sent Chet and I the artwork that might get on Filthy Rich Clients book’s cover. I really can’t wait to get a final printed copy!
Screenshots of New Swing Look and Feel Nimbus
Ben finally released some screenshots of what Nimbus, a new cross-platform look and feel for Swing, looks like. He also gives some interesting insight about the project. Nimbus is a java.net hosted project, as indicated by Infoworld (thanks to JPuppy for the pointer) and a beta version should be available, hopefully, for JavaOne. Look at [...]
New Cross-Platform Look and Feel for Swing
Ben Galbraith, who set up Desktop Matters (the conference I’m supposed to be at right now except I’m not) just posted a blog about a new Swing look and feel I have to be involved with, even though I have yet to start contributing ;-) Ben promises updates and slides throughout the day, so keep [...]
Conferences: Cancelled
Due to several (very) annoying constraints and problems with my visa for my upcoming internship, I had to cancel my participation in Desktop Matters and The Server Side Java Symposium this month. However, Chet agreed to replace me and deliver the talks. It’s even better for you because he has a better american accent and [...]
JavaOne 2007 Sessions
It looks like will be speaking again at JavaOne. For the 2007 editions, I can offer you sequels to two successful presentations from last year. Chet and I will present Filthy Rich Clients: Talk Dirty to Me, a session inspired by the Filthy Rich Client book that was inspired by the JavaOne 2006 session of [...]
