JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Charles Ditzel: Killer Resource - Filthy Rich Clients - 82 SwingJava2D Examples and More- September 16, 2007 What a killer resource. Swing and Java2D are dominating Java client side development and this book provides an excellent set of examples (82 of them!) that will help you in your efforts.http://cld.blog-city.com/killer_resource__filthy_rich_clients__82_swingjava2d_exam.htm Joshua Marinacci: See me speak about JavaFX at the Midwest Java Technology Days- September 15, 2007 Every year lots of developers come to San Francisco for JavaOne. More than fifteen thousand I think. But even more don't come to JavaOne; which might be a good thing since there are over four million of us Java developers...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/09/see_me_speak_ab.html Charles Ditzel: The Imminent Arrival of Something Really Java-Cool- September 14, 2007 Jasper Potts has stirred up the world. In a good way. He has announced the soon-to-happen arrival of something really cool. It isn't just the thing that's arriving that is really cool - but the thing that built the thing that is cool ;-) More...http://cld.blog-city.com/the_imminent_arrival_of_something_really_javacool.htm Geertjan Wielenga: Ingredients for a Cool Life with Java and Swing- September 10, 2007 For a cool life with Java and Swing, take one computer and two books. Start up the first, and open the others. Start reading. Then apply what you read. Satisfaction guaranteed. Here's a summary, showing the two books in the context in which they were meant to be used: On Amazon, you can buy the two together at a special price. At Sun Microsystems Press, you can buy them at a 30% discount. The sunglasses you'll have to get yourself somewhere. Laptop too.http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ingredients_for_a_cool_life Tim Boudreau: The NetBeans Mobile is half way across the U.S.- September 10, 2007 In Avoca, Iowa. Travelling is always an adventure, and this is no exception.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2007/09/the_netbeans_mo_1.html Joshua Marinacci: JavaFX != JavaFX Script- September 10, 2007 I recently gave a presentation at the Portland Java Users Group about Java FX. After talking to some of the fine members of PJUG I realize that there is a lot of confusion about JavaFX and JavaFX script. JavaFX Script...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/09/javafx_javafx_s.html Charles Ditzel: JavaFX Script: Two New Tutorials, New JNLP Demo- September 9, 2007 There are two new JavaFX tutorials - one on setting up client-server communications using JAX-WS and the other a very basic introduction. The other news is an entry from Chris Oliver highlighting JavaFX optimization possibilities. More....http://cld.blog-city.com/javafx__two_new_tutorials_new_jnlp_demo.htm Romain Guy: The Secret Behind Nimbus- September 8, 2007 Jasper just posted a blog entry in which he explains that Nimbus is almost done. That is exciting. Even more exciting is how Nimbus was implemented. Nimbus was built entirely with shapes and vectors in a visual editing tool built as a NetBeans module. This let Jasper and Richard draw every single component, even the ...http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/09/07/the-secret-behind-nimbus/ Geertjan Wielenga: 82 New NetBeans Samples... Free!- September 8, 2007 Chet and Romain's "Filthy Rich Clients" teaches you how to create stunning visual and animated effects with Swing and Java 2D. By the end, you'll know all about graphics and animation fundamentals in Java, as well as advanced rendering techniques. Interestingly, the book's website, http:www.filthyrichclients.org, provides a page from which you can download all the samples discussed in the book. And... all those samples, 82 in fact, are NetBeans projects! They're all quite small and really...http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/82_new_netbeans_samples_free Kirill Grouchnikov: Supporting GroupLayout baseline- September 8, 2007 GroupLayout was introduced in the middle of 2005 and later was added to JDK 6.0. It is the default layout manager used by NetBeans UI editor (code-named Matisse), and while the code using the GroupLayout tends to be very verbose and unreadable, the visual results are very pleasing as compared to other core Swing layout ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=131 |