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JSR 296: Swing Application Framework

By on April 3, 2007 in Programming

Dean Iverson just put together an excellent introduction to JSR 296 (Swing Application Framework) over on his blog. For those that don’t know, JSR 296 is an attempt to create a simple application framework to build your Swing applications on top of. Word on the street is that it will be part of the Java [...]

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Java Swing LNF: Nimbus

By on March 27, 2007 in Programming

There has been some buzz recently surround a new LNF (look and feel) being worked on at Sun called Nimbus. Over all I think it looks fantastic and doing a great-looking LNF is something I’ve always wanted to do, but never set down to actually work on. Here are some quick shots of what Nimbus [...]

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Apple iPhone Does Not Support Java

By on January 15, 2007 in Programming

Well this sucks, apparently Jobs doesn’t think much of Java: Java’s not worth building in [to the phone]. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain. That’s unfortunate to hear, especially with Java becoming such a ubiquitous language for a lot of software, some really good on the Mac. If he doesn’t [...]

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JAVASOFT's Synthetica LNF

By on January 5, 2007 in Programming

JAVASOFT has been working on the Synthetica LNF for quite a while and until recently I didn’t think it looked that great… then I had a look at the screenshot page and noticed just how different the LNF can look with different themes and some of the changes look fantastic. You can launch the WebStart [...]

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Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Java 6

By on December 13, 2006 in Programming

Awesome matrix of new features and compelling reasons to start using Java 6: Countdown Summary Who’s blogging about it ? Web Services Easy to use APIs for developing web service clients. Rajiv and Bob‘s write first an introduction to web services with NetBeans 5.5 and then building a Java SE 6 client to eBay, included [...]

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Professional Java Swing Interface

By on September 30, 2006 in Programming

Wow, was reading through the Swing Sightings recently and saw the announcement of UltraMixer as the “best looking Swing interface we’ve ever seen”, I have to agree: I think it’s obvious from the website and the interface that this is the result you get when you mix software development with professional graphic artists, so polished. [...]

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Replacing JDK Logging / Log4J / NLOG4J With LogBack

By on September 23, 2006 in Programming

If you are like me, you can’t decide on a logging framework for your Java applications. JDK Logging is so easy, Log4J logging is lauded as a “must-used replacement for JDK “crap” logging” and in one new project I downloaded I noticed the use of SLF4J (Simple Logging Framework for Java) for the first time. [...]

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Generic Comparators in Java

By on September 21, 2006 in Programming

Are you using generics in Java? Are you trying to execute a Collections.sort method call and getting an “unchecked” warning from the compiler? This is something I just had to battle with, and here’s how you do it correctly. First your Comparator needs to specify that it is of the type you will be comparing [...]

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Java Boolean Getters Should Use "get" Prefix, not "is"

By on September 17, 2006 in Programming

Interesting, I always wondered about this. According to this blog entry, all getters and setters that are generated should use the “get” prefix for getters, the only time “is” is allowed according to the spec is when generating a getter for a primitive type. Well, looks like I’ll be cracking open the Refactor > Rename [...]

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JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript

By on September 2, 2006 in Programming

It looks like the Dojo developers have released a JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript, more specifically ECMA-262 Standard 3rd edition. Junior developer does a fairly good writeup about it as he’s in the middle of writing a new JavaCC book (not a feat for the weak hearted). For the folks wondering what this is, JavaCC is [...]

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Eclipse 3.2 Running ontop of Swing

By on August 23, 2006 in Technology

Well the “Eclipse on Swing” discussion is heating up again. I have to admit that I do not see the allure to this. Assuming of course there is some benefit to doing this port, by the time it reaches parity with native SWT/JFace I imagine both Swing and SWT will be fast/flexible enough that no [...]

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What are closures in Java?

By on August 22, 2006 in Programming

I first ran across an explanation of this new buzzword for Java 7 in the JavaLobby front page. I saw Rick’s comments about Neal’s ability to describe complex topics easily so I went ahead and clicked over to his explanation of what colsures are and why I should care. 10 minutes later I was completely [...]

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Worst toString method ever

By on August 19, 2006 in Humor & Fun, Technology

Erik threw up a post with the worst toString() method he’s ever run into… I have to admit, this is pretty incredible: public String toString() { if (this != null) return “**** implement me”; return “i am null”; } That is like set-yourself-on-fire-and-do-society-a-favor terrible. If this != null on a non-static method? Nice. Maybe the [...]

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New Rails-like Java web development stack: Project Able

By on August 16, 2006 in Programming

For those of you out there that hate needing to dig through all 6 million Java web frameworks to pick all the pieces together to assemble a web application, but also hate AppFuse, there is a new development stack available to you: Project Able. Able uses the following components/tools: WebWork web MVC framework SiteMesh for [...]

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