The two major features in Fuse 0.4, at least to me, are the resource caching to improve performance and the auto injection facilities. For instance, when you build a Swing UI, Fuse is able to detect any new component you add in a JFrame and automatically inject its resources.

While Fuse was created to help build Aerith, it lacked real world testing. Daniel has been using it for almost a year now in a large-scale product and this helped him get rid of many bugs and improve performance. Fuse is released under the BSD license and provides support for both Swing and SWT.

My apologies to the attendees and to the organizers. I love to deliver technical sessions and discuss Desktop Java with the audience. And I would have loved to attend Desktop Matters to meet engineers from Microsoft, Adobe and Apple.

I am so disappointed @!# Hopefully, I’ll be at the Sun Tech Days in Paris (free registration on Sun’s web site) and at JavaOne 2007. There’s some justice after all :)

Most of the conference material is about desktop Java technologies but there will be some sessions about Adobe’s, Apple’s and Microsoft’s solutions. It seems like a good opportunity to discover other technologies and talk about them with specialists. Also, some members of the Swing team should be present in case you’d be interested to meet them.

I will be present to talk about Filthy Rich Clients. Hope to see you there!