Substance look and feel aims to provide a configurable and customizable production-quality Java look and feel library for Swing applications. This mini-talk will show the following Substance features:

• Using Substance in your Swing application
• Using core themes, watermarks and skins
• Writing your own theme, watermark and skin
• Using animation API
• Additional UI elements available under Substance
• Substance plugin infrastructure and examples for SwingX, Flamingo and NetBeans

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Kirill Grouchnikov has been writing software since he was in junior high school, and after finishing his BSc in computer science, he happily continues doing it for a living. His main fields of interest are desktop applications, imaging algorithms, and advanced UI technologies.