JavaDesktop Features

RepaintManager's side effect

Alexander Potochkin — 2008-04-13

A little-known side effect of setting a custom RepaintManager or using RepaintManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled() method

Character Conversion points

John O'Conner — 2008-04-13

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.

Joint Sun/Microsoft J1 talk on Web Services

Harold Carr — 2008-04-10

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.

Tim Boudreau is working on the Wizard API, an open source Java library that.

2008-04-14

Tim Boudreau is working on the Wizard API, an open source Java library that: More...

Swing links of the week: April 6, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-04-07

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 [...]

At the speed of JavaFX

Joshua Marinacci — 2008-04-06

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...

Substance 4.3 official release

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-04-14

It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 4.3 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Nairobi)

Swing links of the week: April 13, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-04-14

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week...

John O'Conner: Call for participation: Internationalization and Unicode Conference #32

John O'Conner — 2008-04-03

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.

Charles Ditzel: Java SE 6 Update 10 (Beta Early Access) Is Now Available

Charles Ditzel — 2008-04-02

Beta of Update 10 of Java SE 6 is now available.

Java Posse #176 - Roundup 08 - Why is Agile Hard?

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-04-01

Roundup 08 - Why is Agile Hard?Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Superfriendshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Friends Unit Testinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing Parleys.comhttp://parleys.com Agility r

Java 3D Open Sourced!

2008-03-05

The Java 3D team has announced the open source release of the j3d-core and vecmath subprojects on java.net under the GPLv2 license with the CLASSPATH exception. This applies to all source code in the javax.media.j3d and javax.vecmath packages. Read the LICENSE.txt and README-FIRST.txt files in the top directory of each project's source code repository for details on what the license allows you to do.

You may notice that the web page and various README files now refer to the "3D Graphics API for the Java Platform" in many places. This is the official name for the open source version of the Java 3D API. Other than the name, there are no differences (and, in fact, we will build the binary version of Java 3D 1.5.2 from the same sources).

The name change was done for the same reason that OpenJDK chose a different name than "Java" for their release: namely, Java 3D is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, and we want to make it clear that: A) we are not giving away rights to use that name, and B) the binaries built from these (possibly modified) sources are not "Java 3D" from Sun.

Subject to the terms of the GPLv2 license, you may modify the j3d-core or vecmath sources, but you may not call it "Java 3D".

Java Posse #166 - Guillaume Laforge on Groovy

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-02-28

Interview with Guillaume Laforge on Groovy Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com This interview is also available in video form at http://parleys.com The actual interview video is: http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/A+Groov

Kirill Grouchnikov: Translucent and shaped windows in core Java

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-02-27

Build 12 of JDK 6.0u10 has support for translucent and shaped windows!

Teppefall Capture: From prototype to application

JP — 2008-02-27

There is a lot of tricky logic in this application that is not so obvious just by looking at some screen shots. There are the delicious differences between Windows XP and Vista on how they deal with shared native libraries....

Java Posse #165 - Listener Feedback

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-02-25

Listener Feedback Special Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ And if you are attendin

Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing links of the week: February 24, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-02-25

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Daniel Spiewak walks through the steps of creating a simple form, from sketching the design on a piece of paper to implementing it in code. Personally, i felt that the recommendation to select the layout that the specific developer feels comfortable with is [...]

Introducing Teppefall Capture

JP — 2008-02-24

This application is still a work in progress, but I am tired of keeping it a secret so here is the dirt. Teppefall Capture is a simple Photo Booth clone. By simple I mean it is built on the FX/Layout...

John O'Conner: Java applets not viable for this application?

John O'Conner — 2008-02-22

I've been working with a company that creates a chat system that helps companies sell more of their products online. The backend is all Java, complete with Spring, servlets...all good Java stuff. The frontend is...well, it's Flash.

Charles Ditzel: Swing Pointers Updated

Charles Ditzel — 2008-02-20

Swing Pointers have been updated. The Swing Pointers are simply a collection of Swing-related events, tutorials, latest new, presentations, blog entries and articles that have transpired in the last few months. More...

Kirill Grouchnikov: New painter types in Substance

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-02-20

About three months ago i wrote an overview of painters in Substance look-and-feel. Painters are one of the major building blocks of Substance, and over the last few releases they have been used extensively to provide consistent appearance to both core and third-party components. Unfortunately, the original painter design and responsibilities have not always stood [...]

Michael Nascimento Santos: Making your components work nicer inside Matisse

Michael Nascimento Santos — 2008-02-20

Have you developed the killer component for your application, but it takes too long to load inside Matisse? Or worse - you face class loading errors since it has too many weird dependencies? Well, here is a small tip to make it work faster and without much hassle...

Java Posse #164 - Newscast for Feb 18th 2008

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-02-20

Newscast for Feb 18th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ And if you are attendi

Kirill Grouchnikov: Flamingo 3.0 official release

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-02-19

The official release for version 3.0 of Flamingo component suite, including command buttons, breadcrumb bar, ribbon and file viewer panel.

Romain Guy: What do you want to hear about?

Romain Guy — 2008-02-19

Chet and I are going to present another installment of Filthy Rich Clients at JavaOne 2008. We have a bunch of cool ideas for techniques and demos we would like to show you but I am very interested in hearing what you want to know about. If you have any visual effect, animation or graphics [...]

Joshua Marinacci: JavaFX Script Doodles, #2: a tabbed rectangle

Joshua Marinacci — 2008-02-19

Before I dive into my second doodle I'd like to mention the following Groodle. Allow me to explain. Andres Almiray saw my first JavaFX Doodle and decided to recreate it using the GraphicsBuilder syntax of Groovy; hence a Groodle! :)...

Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing links of the week: February 17, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-02-18

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Thierry Lefort joins the ranks of Swing bloggers and opens his blog with a slew of posts. The first entry talks about rendering bar charts in table renderers, the second one adds zooming capabilities to tables (with a very interesting zooming on selection [...]

Alex Potochkin: JTrayIcon update

Alexander Potochkin — 2008-02-14

TrayIcon and JPopupMenu - will they ever be friends?

Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing links of the week: February 10, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-02-11

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Christopher Deckers writes about the new functionality in drop 0.9.3 of his DJ Native Swing project. The main focus is on the possibility to mix heavyweight and lightweight components with lightweight components on top, to change their Z-order or re-parent them. The new Metawidget [...]

Geertjan: Beans Binding for Dummies

geertjan — 2008-02-10

If you want to really understand "beans binding", i.e., JSR-295, you can study lots of documents. Alternatively, you can go through a small but very powerful demo, here. At the end, you have a bean, which has properties that you bind to Swing components. No coding at all, because the NetBeans tooling makes it a point-and-click experience.

At the end, and only a few clicks later, I moved the demo to the NetBeans Platform, installing it in the IDE's "output" window position. (I created a suite, which included two library wrappers, for the beans binding JAR and the original app JAR, together with my functionality module that provides the TopComponent, which creates the new window in the IDE.) Now, I can change the text in the JTextField below and then immediately the text in the ticker is changed. Why? Because the relevant property in the ticker bean is bound to the Swing component (in real life, when you run the app, the yellow banner with the blue text is moving from right to left, like a "ticker", such as is found on the bottom of the screen on CNN, for example):

Take my advice and follow the Ticker Demo and you too will find out what it's all about.

Java Posse #163 - Newscast for Feb 8th 2008

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-02-10

Newscast for Feb 8th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ Grails 1.0 has been rel

Igor Kushnirskiy: Scenario Webstart Extension

Igor Kushnirskiy — 2008-02-09

webstart extension is available for Scenario binaries.

Alex Potochkin: Disabling Swing Containers, the final solution?

Alexander Potochkin — 2008-01-23

The elegant and effective solution for disabling Swing containers, the correct implementation of the locking GlassPane included

Ben Galbraith: of Fonts and Java2D

Ben Galbraith — 2008-01-25

A poorly-rendered typeface can really ruin my day. This entry describes my past and recent efforts to get beautiful type in my Java Swing applications.

Kirill Grouchnikov: Is one of my Java desktop 2008 wishes coming true?

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-24

I had only two things on my Java desktop wishlist for 2008 - cross-platform support for H.264 / FLV formats and converters / viewers for competing markup formats. To quote myself on the second wish You know what i’m talking about - those pesky competitors that have 99.9% percent of the consumer-facing rich desktop market. Flash [...]

Java Posse #158 - Newscast for Jan 9th 2008

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-01-10

Java Posse Episode 158 - January 9th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com T-shirt is available -- http://www.zazzle.com/javaposse Roundup - only days left for the early bird price - sign up before January 15th or it

How do I answer the question: What is Java?

Joshua Marinacci — 2008-01-09

Things are going well on the designer tool, but we won't have anything to show publicly for a while. I will tease you with the news that I just implemented the first version of a drawing tool assistant that you...

Native text rendering in Swing applications - followup with Steve Northover

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-09

Following the last few entries on using SWT for native text rendering in Swing applications under the Substance look-and-feel, i was contacted by Steve Northover (technical lead of the SWT project) with a few suggestions. First, to recap the relevant entries up until now: The introduction showed a few screenshots of rasterizing the default Vista [...]

New Tutorial : Using the SceneGraph API

Charles Ditzel — 2008-01-09

There is a nice little tutorial on using the SceneGraph API.

Introducing the SceneGraph Project

Hans Muller — 2008-01-09

An introduction to the new java.net SceneGraph project.

Been There, Scene That: Part 2

Chet Haase — 2008-01-09

And now, for the stunning conclusion of my previous blog entry. In this week's exciting climax, we'll go over some of the new, cool elements in the scene graph animation engine and end with a discussion of what it all means (life, animation - all of that).

Swing links of the week: January 6, 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-07

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Luan O’Carroll writes about updates to the rollup bar component from the XUI framework. The functionality of the component seems to lie somewhere between the task pane container / collapsible panels of SwingX and the collapsed panels of docking frameworks. The links to [...]

Youtube player in JDIC browser

Rich Unger — 2008-01-07

At Geertjan's suggestion, I tried his Youtube modules with my JDIC integration. Worked out of the box, no problem. I didn't have to change a thing. Nice when that happens, eh?

Fractal flames #1

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-06

The Substance watermark pack comes with the functionality to generate fractal flame watermarks. While it takes considerably more time to create these watermarks (about 15-20 seconds on a decent machine), the visual results are certainly worth it, even outside the original goal of using the fractal flame images to add watermarking capabilities to Swing applications. [...]

Painting vertical texts with subpixel anti-aliasing

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-05

Sometimes, the application design requires displaying vertical (rotated) texts. While this is not a common requirement, and the usage of vertical texts must be kept to the absolutely minimum, one should be aware of the possible technical solutions and the problems associated with them. This entry shows two possible solutions, accompanied by the screenshots and [...]

Been There, Scene That

Chet Haase — 2008-01-04

Part 1 of a two-part article on the animation engine in the Scene Graph project. A moving tale.

Substance theme pack updated

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-04

In addition to about twenty core Substance themes, the theme pack plugin provides even more themes to create a unique look for your Swing applications. When you put the binary plugin in the classpath, the additional themes become available in the getAllThemes() API, and you can use them just like any other core theme. As part [...]

JavaFX Script and a New Key Animation Framework

Charles Ditzel — 2008-01-03

JavaFX Script is getting a more comprehensive Key Animation framework. More....

Java Posse #157 - Holiday Special

Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall (javaposse@gmail.com) — 2008-01-03

Holiday SpecialFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th and be a part of sessions like this yourself! http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPo

Native text rendering in Swing applications - ready, steady, go!

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2008-01-02

The subject of native text rendering in Swing applications has been introduced on this blog about six weeks ago, and I already described some of the implementation details. The devil is, of course, in details (unless you’re working on whizzy demoes), and i’ve spent the last month working on all the issues mentioned in the [...]

The OLPC and Java

Cay Horstmann — 2007-12-31

I got myself (and another deserving child somewhere out there) a "One Laptop Per Child" for christmas. Here is my experience with Java on the device, followed by some year-end musings what this all means.

Swing links of the week: December 30, 2007

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-12-30

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Nazmul Idris has created a tutorial on SwingX painters. The painters generated quite a lot of heated discussion and development about half a year ago, and there were passionate talks about restructuring the entire Swing painting pipeline around the painters. It seems that [...]

Resource : JavaPolis JavaFX Session (PDF)

Charles Ditzel — 2007-12-30

James Weaver has made his Javapolis session (PDF) available. More...

Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine: Yet Another Successful JavaPolis

alexismp — 2007-12-18

JavaPolis is over and it was yet another great event. I've had many people tell me they liked it more than JavaOne. It must be either the comfy theater chairs or the size of the conference (easy to talk chat with speakers and conference attendees).

It must be a habit of releasing NetBeans versions for JavaPolis (4.0 in 2004). This time NetBeans 6.0 is really here and what a distance between those releases!

My GlassFish presentation went well, very well even given I had totally crashed my aging laptop two hours before I started. Good thing I had my presentation on a USB stick and that the GF download was reasonable in size. As Jean-François wrote, the audience was good (the competition was pretty stiff) and people stayed throughout the presentation and there were some interesting questions after the talk. The startup time of the current v3 drew some nice "wow" 's and applause which I almost did expect (I'm must be spoiled after showing this too many times ;-).

Of course I met a lot of people and I'm not even going to try to name them all. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised to see the attendance in talks such as Java EE 6, EJB 3.1, and JPA 2.0. They were really crowed. Spring seemed less present than previous years and there was no BEA in sight (they used to be one of the main sponsors).

Finally, it was great to see Neal and Josh on stage together, but it seems the agreement didn't last long.

Laird Nelson: Useful Swing Thing #1

Laird Nelson — 2007-12-17

The first of (hopefully) a series of quick, useful Swing tips.

Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing links of the week: December 16, 2007

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-12-17

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Dave Gilbert of JFreeChart project follows in the footsteps of Google Chart and provides a servlet that generates embeddable chart images for web applications. While not strictly relevant to Swing, it employs the same approach as outlined by Jacobus Steenkamp in this article [...]

Kirill Grouchnikov: File viewer panel control for Swing applications

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-12-15

This entry shows the capabilities of file viewer panel control from the upcoming version 3.0 of Flamingo component suite project.

Project SceneGraph Unveiled (Presentation) - Updated

Charles Ditzel — 2007-12-11

A new project that enables scene graphs in JavaFX Script and Java (more generally) is now available. Check out the presentation...

Alex Potochkin: Making A Rainbow: Spotlight effect and soft clipping

Alexander Potochkin — 2007-11-29

Detailed tutorial on implementing advanced effect for the our J1 session's demo...

Kirill Grouchnikov: Substance animation primer

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-11-29

Lately, there have been quite a few postings on the mailing list of Substance look-and-feel that ask how to change the default animation settings. This can be required for a number of reasons, including performance speedup and proper effects on custom application renderers. Following in the footsteps of the painter primer and skinner primer, the [...]

Jan Haderka: SwingX in central maven repository

Jan Haderka — 2007-11-28

SwingX version 0.9 and 0.9.1 have been uploaded to central maven repository.

Invitation: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days

2007-11-21

Are you a mobile application or platform developer and interested in connecting with other developers to share ideas, best practices, and technical know-how? Join us at Sun Microsystems in Santa Clara for a mini-conference, January 23-24th.

James Gosling will be delivering the keynote.

Two-day immersion in mobile and embedded Java technology with an information-packed agenda
Networking and brainstorming opportunities
Access to the entire conference program and all sessions
Access to archived sessions and content after the event (subject to technical and organizational limitations)
Continental breakfast and box lunch each day

Jan Haderka: SwingX 0.9.1 released

2007-11-20

It is barely a month ago that I announced the SwingX 0.9 release. Since then SwingX has seen renewed interest from users and some major work done on the backlog by its commiters. Due to this and due to the fact that we have managed to fix about 75 issues within last month, I'm happy to announce next release!

Geertjan Wielenga: Filthy Rich Clients: The Book Review

geertjan — 2007-11-14

It's been a few months since the release of Chet Haase and Romain Guy's "Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications". The cover of my copy of the book is bent and buckled, the edges of the pages are frayed, bread crumbs and chocolate smears have enriched its pages, and there are multiple bookmarks peeking out at various angles... perhaps the time has come to pass judgement on its content.

Cafe au Lait : Apple has posted a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6 on the Apple Developer Connection (first born child required).

2007-11-14

Apple has posted a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6 on the Apple Developer Connection (first born child required). This release updates the Java on Mac OS X Tiger to versions 1.5.0_13 and 1.4.2_16. Still no sign of Java 6. :-(

Kirill Grouchnikov: Flamingo component suite 3.0 - the teaser

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-11-13

There hasn't been a lot of new content on this blog over the past three weeks, and this entry is just to keep you in sync with what you can expect from the next development drop of the components in the Flamingo component suite. Here is a partial screenshot of the controls (ribbon, buttons and galleries)...

Chet Haase: Submit a JavaOne Proposal NOW!

Chet Haase — 2007-11-07

Tick, tick, tick.... The JavaOne Call for Papers closes on November 16th. It's only an abstract. Just one little abstract. And it's free! Come on - you can do it...

Kirill Grouchnikov: Substance skinning primer

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-11-07

As Substance look-and-feel nears the official release 4.1 (scheduled for November 12th), i’m working on the missing documentation. This entry talks about the using the painter layer to skin custom components. As mentioned in the painter overview, most of the Substance painting logic is abstracted into a set of painters. This not only allows preventing duplicate [...]

Alexander Potochkin: Debug Swing repainting

Alexander Potochkin — 2007-11-06

Implementing a nice visual indication during repainting of Swing components

Fabrizio Giudici: Next talks about NASA World Wind and other geographic tecnologies

Fabrizio Giudici — 2007-11-04

In the latest months I've presented blueMarine at a lot of conferenced and meetings, so now I'm going to change a bit the focus (but don't panic :-) blueMarine will be again at the center of a JavaPolis presentation). The...

Michael Grev: MiG Layout 3.0 (Free Swing/SWT Layout Manager)

2007-11-05

MiG Layout is for Java developers writing GUI layouts by hand that wants simplicity, power and automatic per platform fidelity. If you are dissatisfied with the current layout managers in Swing and SWT, MiGLayout solves all your layout problems.

Unlike JGoodies' FormLayout and Clearthought's TableLayout - MiGLayout solves all your layouts with equal ease in a way that is easy to change and maintain. You will understand how the layout will look like when looking at the code.

Version 3.0 adds better and more automatic support for Resolution Independence. It also fixes all known bugs.

Visit the MiG Layout Site where you can find Web Start Demos and full Documentation.

JavaOne Conference 2008: Call for Papers

Marina Sum — 2007-10-31

It's that time again! The deadline is November 16, just around the corner.

Product Update: Colorspace 1.7

JP — 2007-11-05

Kirill Grouchnikov: Swing links of the week: November 4, 2007

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-11-05

Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Jan Erik Paulsen is working on a new RIA tool named Amanda. Some nice screenshots that use the Titanium look-and-feel that is based on Substance. The release notes for Java 5 on Leopard include a few new client properties that can be used to [...]

Kirill Grouchnikov: Overview of Substance painters

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-11-04

As Substance look-and-feel nears the official release 4.1 (scheduled for November 12th), i’m working on the missing documentation. This entry talks about the painter layer in Substance. Painter encapsulates a common painting logic. For example, in Substance, selected elements in lists, tables, trees and menus are painted with the same gradients. So, instead of replicating this [...]

Joshua Marinacci: My First Screencast: Visually build an RSS reader using NetBeans 6

Joshua Marinacci — 2007-11-02

In this screencast I will show you how to use a simple RSS reader bean to build a feed reading application with almost no code. The screencast is 12 minutes long, but I could build and deploy the app in about 4 minutes if I wasn't talking. That's how productive NetBeans 6 can make you.

Jayson Falkner: Building a Java applet-based game -- why don't we see more of them?

Jayson Falkner — 2007-11-02

My younger brother and I decided to try and make a viral video game. The sort of game that can suck hours away from your life. The type of game that passes the boring times at work. The type of game that normally seems to be coded in Flash.... Here we'll document how successful Java seemed to be in making this game.

Julian Doherty: Still no Java 1.6 on Mac OS X Leopard

Julian Doherty — 2007-11-01

Leopard is out, and most development based news sites are abuzz with the scandal that OS X still doesn't support Java 1.6

Don't have much to add to the flames, except to say I called it.

Ben Galbraith: More on Leopard's Java 1.5: The Release Notes Michael Urban Should Have Read

Ben Galbraith — 2007-10-31

A journey through OS X 10.5 Leopard's release notes shows some pretty interesting tidbits.

Charles Ditzel: JavaFX Script Second Tutorial, Groovy, Apple and NetBeans 6 GPLv2

Charles Ditzel — 2007-10-30

There is a bunch of stuff happening. For starters, James Weaver's second tutorial on JavaFX Script is out. There are two new Groovy intro tutorials and Apple has caused a firestorm amongst Java developers. Finally - NetBeans 6 has been GPLv2'ed.

Kirill Grouchnikov: Why i don't care about Java 6 on Leopard

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-10-29

It looks like anywhere you go in the Java blogosphere, people are only talking about Java 6 (or lack of thereof) on Leopard. Some say that the only reason they bought Leopard was for Java 6, some say that their honeymoon with Apple is over, and some say that Java 6 will be available shortly [...]

Kirill Grouchnikov: Java desktop wishlist for 2008

Kirill Grouchnikov — 2007-10-26

While the Java blogosphere is raging with debates on closures, properties and other negligible language-level features, the client-side battle is still fought between Microsoft, Adobe and Apple. And while finally Sun decided to step in with JavaFX and improved applet handling, this will change little without the tools for content handling.