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Coding Naked: Getting started programming in Java can be a daunting task. Experienced programmers don't think twice about creating a GUI and adding a JButton. Ken Arnold suggests that you look at the JButton class with the eyes of a newbie. It is overwhelming. Scan the number of methods that are available to you from JButton directly and from the hierarchy from which it descends: AbstractButton, JComponent, Container, Component, and Object itself. All you want to do is create a button with a label that is tied to some action when it is clicked. What's all this other stuff? » Read more
(July 15, 2003 7:56AM PT)

Feature Stories

		Introduction To Naked Objects: It is time to strip applications of complex UIs and give users direct access to business objects. The concept is simple: write behaviorally complete business model objects and use generic views and controllers. » Read more (Jul 15, 2003)

		Analyze this - A conversation with James Gosling: For the past several years, Java's creator James Gosling has been working at Sun Labs, researching ways to analyze and manipulate programs represented as annotated parse trees, a project called Jackpot. Compilers have long built parse trees when they translate source code into binary. But traditionally, programmers have worked with source code primarily by manipulating text with editors. In this first of three articles that will appear on Artima.com, Bill Venners talks with Gosling about how Jackpot can help programmers analyze, visualize, and refactor their programs. » Read more (Jul 13, 2003)

Also Today

JSP 2.0 Technology: Mark Roth, co-lead of the JavaServer Pages 2.0 specification, looked ahead at the next release in JSP 2.0 Technology . This JDJ article provides an overview of many of the new features of JSP 2.0 that will be released as part of J2EE 1.4, "including a simple yet flexible integrated expression language, an encapsulation mechanism called tag files, a simplified tag extension API, and a substantially improved XML syntax."
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Javapedia: ConvertFromByteArrayToInt: A post to the Javapedia discusses using an intermediate step to convert a ByteArray to an int. The discussion questions the approaches given on the page. Take a look at the code and offer your own solution or comment on the one there.
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