JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Shannon Hickey: Beans Binding 1.1.1 Beats 1.0's Butt, Bigtime- October 19, 2007 Shannon Hickey announces the 1.1.1 release of Beans Binding, with a drastic increase in performance.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/shan_man/archive/2007/10/beans_binding_1_1.html Nazmul Idris: Animated Transitions & Glass Pane Tutorials- October 18, 2007 Check out these two tutorials by Nazmul: How to use the AnimatedTransition API (SwingX and Timingframework) and How to use glass pane for animation (SwingX and Timingframework).http://developerlife.com/graphics/animatedtransitions/index.html Ken Russell on the new Java Plugin- October 18, 2007 After we posted about the news that Sun has rewritten the browser Java plugin system, we got a chance to sit down with the lead engineer on the project, Ken Russell...http://ajaxian.com/archives/ken-russell-on-the-new-java-plugin Apple's removed the Java 1.6 preview form the Apple Developer Connection, possibly because they expect to ship it with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in a coup- October 16, 2007 Apple's removed the Java 1.6 preview form the Apple Developer Connection, possibly because they expect to ship it with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in a couple of weeks, or possibly because they've decided not to ship it at all. With Apple, it could go either away.http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_15_2007_75063 Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing links of the week: October 14, 2007- October 15, 2007 Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: A very informative posting on the AppFramework mailing list from Hans Muller that includes advice by Shannon Hickey on handling uncaught exceptions in EDT. There are three alternatives, none of them providing a complete solution (unfortunately): Toolkit.getSystemEventQueue.push() with a custom event queue. The &8220;sun.awt.exception.handler&8221; ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=157 Kirill Grouchnikov: New Creme Coffee skin for Swing applications- October 15, 2007 Just before the feature freeze of Substance 4.1, i added a new Coffee Cream skin that is based on the existing Creme skin and the Ubuntu&8217;ish brown active theme. If you want to take it for a spin, click on the WebStart button below and change the skin to Coffee Cream from the &8220;Skins&8221; menu: To ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=156 Kirill Grouchnikov: Getting ready for the Substance 4.1 feature freeze- October 12, 2007 Over the past releases of Substance look and feel I found that it helps to have a well-defined release lifecycle and schedule. The usual cycle for a minor release is 12 weeks long, with last two weeks being the release candidate stage and the two weeks before that (a month before the final release) being ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=155 Charles Ditzel: OpenJFX Compiler : Tom Ball Talks About the JavaFX Script Compiler- October 12, 2007 A JavaFX Script compiler will change the performance characteristics of JavaFX Script. There is a nice interview with Tom Ball of Sun where he talks about it. More....http://cld.blog-city.com/openjfx_compiler__tom_ball_talks_about_the_javafx_script_co.htm Dummy' guide to drawing raw images in Java 2D- October 12, 2007 A couple months ago I signed up to do a presentation on concurrency for the St. Louis Java User Group, which happened last night. I wanted to explore a bunch of techniques and issues but stick to one domain, so I chose generation of the Mandelbrot set, just for fun. It takes me way back ...http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/10/12/images-java2d/ Mark Reinhold: Publishing code reviews- October 11, 2007 One of the engineering practices that&8217;s served the JDK development team well for many years now is that of peer-based code reviews. What&8217;s the most expedient way to enable any OpenJDK contributor to publish code-review materials on the open web for all to seehttp://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/open_webrevs |