Well written Swing applications tend to have the same core elements for startup and shutdown, and for managing resources, actions, and session state. New applications create all of these core elements from scratch. Java SE does not provide any support for structuring applications, and this often leaves new developers feeling a bit adrift, particularly when they're contemplating building an application whose scale goes well beyond the examples provided in the SE documentation. This specification will (finally) fill that void by defining the basic structure of a Swing application. It will define a small set of extensible classes or "framework" that define infrastructure that's common to most desktop applications...
Hans Muller is the CTO for Sun's Desktop Division. He has been at Sun for over 15 years and has been involved with desktop GUI work of one kind another for nearly all of that time. He has been involved with the Java project since its earliest days and led the Swing team and later all of the client Java work at Sun.
High performant Java 3D and 2D graphical applications— This presentation demonstrates that the Java platform is very well suited for high performance graphical applications, such as high demanding 3D and 2D applications in the GIS (Geographical Information Systems) world.
blueMarine— In this talk we will show you the blueMarine project, an opensource desktop application to support the photographic workflow. blueMarine is being designed following the best practices for the creation of a 'filthy rich client', from animations to the use of JOGL, and taking advantage of the rich framework delivered by the NetBeans Rich Client Platform.
IRIS, a RIA swing applet— Iris shows the power of modern Java applets, highlighting the following major features of the Java platform: Dynamic extension of applets: new techniques developed within the past year in the JOGL project allow applets to use OpenGL for 3D graphics, OpenAL for spatialized audio, Java Media codecs, and other extensions previously only available to desktop or Java Web Start applications.
Applying CSS styling to Java desktop and web GUIs— CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style such as fonts, colors, and spacing to Web documents. This technology remains today confined to HTML and XML documents, although its principles are suitable for other domains. Let's see how we can use what we know to style Java objects, and then apply one typical styling system, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), to the Java world to enhance the informative level of a user interface.
Spring is Swinging— Java is back on the desktop! We need to deliver high-quality, good-looking, multi-tier swing applications to our customers. How can Spring help us to achieve this at minimal cost?
