JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Romain Guy: 82 Swing and Java 2D Demos- August 20, 2007 Filthy Rich Clients is available and several people have already received their copy. To make sure you can follow all of our examples easily, Chet and I have just released the demos of the final chapters: Static Effects, Dynamic Effects and Animated Transitions. These demos are our favorites so make sure to check them out!http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/08/20/82-swing-and-java-2d-demos/ Kirill Grouchnikov: Release candidate for Substance 4.0- August 20, 2007 The release candidate for version 4.0 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Key Largo) is available. The list of new features includes: Six new skins: Nebula, Nebula Brick Wall, Autumn, Magma, Mist Silver and Mist Aqua. State-aware theme transitions Smart tree scroll Glowing icons (buttons, option pane) Support for JXPanel translucency SwingX UI delegates in SwingX plugin Border painters New title painters: Brushed Metal, Marble ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=122 Cay Horstmann: Flying Saucer Comes Through with Flying Colors, or the Triumph of Infrastructure- August 18, 2007 I had to render a set of presentation slides in HTML Slidy format into images. This blog entry shows how to carry out this task with the excellent Flying Saucer XHTML renderer and concludes with some ramblings about infrastructure.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2007/08/flying_saucer_c.html Java Posse 138 - Newscast for August 16th and Glassfish Interview- August 18, 2007 Newscast for August 16th 2007 and Glassfish Interview Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http:javaposse.com SCO end game unrollinghttp:slashdot.orgarticles0708 13208231.shtml http:linux.slashdot.orgarticle.pl sid=07081021482http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=246577 Joshua Marinacci: NetBeans to become GPL!- August 17, 2007 I have been in the open source world for a long time. Pretty much since I first installed Slackware in my sophomore year of college (I'll leave calculating that year and my age as an exercise to the reader). I...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/08/netbeans_to_bec.html Ariel Meilij: A new perspective for SWING under NetBeans 6.0 M10- August 14, 2007 I downloaded the new development version of NetBeans 6.0 (actually in M10) just for the kicks. I wanted to see if the new Ruby on Rails editing was any good, and I was recently surprised so. But not so much for the excellent Rails support, but rather for the new SWING look...http://ameilij.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/a-new-perspective-for-swing-under-netbeans-60-m10/ Praveen Mohan: FX animations - Capture the falling objects- August 13, 2007 As a continuation of my learning process, I wanted to find out What would it take to write a blocks game in FX...http://blogs.sun.com/praveenm/entry/fx_animations_contd_capture_the John O'Conner: Learning the JavaFX way of doing things- August 10, 2007 I discovered that although using JavaFX Script's declarative syntax to define the visual UI is easy, I was being simple-minded to think I'd be able to just return that whole UI structure to Java.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2007/08/learning_the_ja.html Java Posse 137 - Newscast for August 9th 2007- August 10, 2007 Newscast for August 9th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http:javaposse.com Iris is ready for the prime time (or at least general experimentation) https:iris.dev.java.net Hackademix.net has a description of a way to use Java andhttp://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=243895 David Herron: Java-in-browser availability- August 9, 2007 One of the questionsconcerns about Java is, can a web site author assume that it's there Part of the popularity of Flash or Javascript is it's in all browsers, but the belief is that Java probably is not installed. I...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2007/08/javainbrowser_a.html |