JavaDesktop FeaturesItems from java.net's JavaDesktop Community homepage.Substance 4.3 official release- April 14, 2008 It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 4.3 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Nairobi)http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=293 Swing links of the week: April 13, 2008- April 14, 2008 Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=292 Tim Boudreau is working on the Wizard API, an open source Java library that.- April 14, 2008 Tim Boudreau is working on the Wizard API, an open source Java library that: More...http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_8_2008_73385 RepaintManager's side effect- April 13, 2008 A little-known side effect of setting a custom RepaintManager or using RepaintManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled() methodhttp://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2008/04/custom_repaintm.html Character Conversion points- April 13, 2008 You'd think this sort of problem would be resolved by now, but it's not. It's still almost impossible to quickly and easily migrate an application from the too common default Latin-1 to UTF-8 character set encoding.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/character_conve_1.html Joint SunMicrosoft J1 talk on Web Services- April 10, 2008 Kevin Wittkopf (Microsoft) and I (Sun) will be giving a joint talk on Java (using Metro and GlassFish) and .NET 3.5 interoperable web services at JavaOne. The blog entry gives the details.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/haroldcarr/archive/2008/04/joint_sunmicros.html Swing links of the week: April 6, 2008- April 7, 2008 Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Jacek Furmankiewicz posted a series of three entries on builders for Swing layout managers. The first entry shows two prototypes for wrapping Mig layout manager in a Java builder, the second entry explores a more WYSIWYG approach (which looks like a simplified version ...http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=291 At the speed of JavaFX- April 6, 2008 As we all rush headlong into JavaOne prep someone (okay it was James Gosling) sent me an email about performance of JavaFX. Speed is a crucial issue for anything dealing with user interfaces, so we care deeply about performance in...http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2008/04/at_the_speed_of.html John O'Conner: Call for participation: Internationalization and Unicode Conference 32- April 3, 2008 The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the technical conference for software and web internationalization engineers. If you have a product that implements the Unicode standard or an idea that will help others work with this standard, share your knowledge.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2008/04/call_for_partic.html Charles Ditzel: Java SE 6 Update 10 (Beta Early Access) Is Now Available- April 2, 2008 Beta of Update 10 of Java SE 6 is now available.http://cld.blog-city.com/java_se_6_update_10_beta_early_access_is_now_available.htm |