Client-side

New Color Chooser in JDK 7

Many changes in Swing will appear in JDK 7 including a new date chooser. I've recently noticed that the JColorChooser has also improved in JDK 7 adding new...

8 replies - 4463 views - 10/12/09 by Anthony Goubard in Articles

Pluggable Spring RC? (OSGi with Spring Rich Client)

My last post was about pure Swing, which could be easily OSGified. OSGi technology can be  used to hotdeploy or undeploy jar files to your application server...

0 replies - 1764 views - 09/19/09 by Peter Karich in Articles

Plugable Swing – A Hello World OSGi Example

There are a lot of OSGi applications available, but a minority of them is aimed at the client side. Here I will list some on Swing:

4 replies - 3585 views - 09/17/09 by Peter Karich in Articles

Making the Right Choice For Your User Interface

Among developers, the decision of what user interface technology to use is always a biased one. I, as an Eclipse enthusiast, will almost always go for an...

16 replies - 4933 views - 08/14/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

The JavaFX Scenegraph Dilemma

There is a problem with JavaFX when using it to render more complex scenes: the scene’s memory use increases and performance degrades as more and more nodes...

26 replies - 3103 views - 08/06/09 by superstring in Articles

Why Should I Invest In Learning JavaFX?

This following blog presentation is also available in audio as an AudioBoo: "Why Should I Invest in Learning JavaFX?".What functions does your...

3 replies - 3790 views - 07/28/09 by Peter Pilgrim's... in Articles

Eclipse RCP Refcard Released: Meet the Author

This week we release our Eclipse RCP Refcard, helping you to get started writing applications and plug-ins based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.  Here we...

0 replies - 2916 views - 07/20/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

CSS Layout: Soon Good Enough for GUIs

One of the sore points of Ajax has always been layout: CSS is great for document layout, but sucks at GUI layout. Where Java layout managers such as the...

5 replies - 3572 views - 07/20/09 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

Java Tips: Disabling the Maximize Button of a JFrame

The truth is that there is no direct way to remove the maximize button off the JFrame as it is created by Windows and it is not painted using Swing so U...

6 replies - 2277 views - 07/20/09 by James Sugrue in Tips and Tricks

Declarative Hyperlinking in RESTEasy

REST APIs must be hypertext driven. That requirement has quite a few implications on how one defines a RESTful interface which in turn has quite a few...

2 replies - 2431 views - 06/23/09 by Solomon in News

JMS Over HTTP Using OpenMQ (Sun Java System Message Queue and HTTP Tunneling)

You may have already faced a situation where you need to have messaging capabilities in your application while your client application runs in an environment,...

1 replies - 4278 views - 06/22/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Implementing a Common-Profile Map Renderer for JavaFX (Part 1: the Model)

If you look at one of the JavaFX demos at javafx.com, you'll find something with a map renderer. While it works fine, unfortunately the demo is wrapping the...

2 replies - 2533 views - 06/15/09 by Fabrizio Giudici in Articles

JavaFX Refcard Released: Meet The Author

Today we've released the JavaFX Refcard, one of the cards on our schedule that I've been eagerly anticipating. I met the author, Stephen Chin, to discuss...

0 replies - 1289 views - 06/01/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

JavaFX in One Day

As written in my last blog, I've decided to look at other languages. Let's start with JavaFX. I like developing user interfaces and I've already spent half a...

1 replies - 4086 views - 05/21/09 by Anthony Goubard in Articles

Project Vector: The Ultimate App Store?

In his latest blog post, Jonathan Schwartz talks about a new app store for Java codenamed Project Vector. By the time it's released it will likely be called...

18 replies - 4225 views - 05/19/09 by James Sugrue in News