Client-side

Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 5 - Localization

This is the last in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker. The...

0 replies - 2451 views - 08/12/08 by Greg Brown in News

On Java Exception Handling

I came across a series of blog posts by Daniel Pietraru that deal with the use of exceptions in Java programming — I love it. The exception framework in Java...

47 replies - 8057 views - 08/12/08 by hchen1 in Articles

Documenting Thread Safety

Along with the problem of actually making code thread-safe, there is also the problem of documenting it so other programmers know how to use your code. In...

3 replies - 3265 views - 08/11/08 by Alex Miller in News

GWT: Running a completed project

Let's put GWTShell and GWTCompiler to use with a calculator example, CalculatorWidget. First, we'll use GWTShell to get the lay of the land and launch the...

0 replies - 4953 views - 08/11/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Interview: Jaroslav Tulach, Author of "Practical API Design"

Jaroslav Tulach (pictured, left), the author of the recently released "Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect", published by...

8 replies - 10894 views - 08/11/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Practical Introductions to the Spring RCP

Via a series of practical examples, I explored the main features of Spring RCP, a comprehensive Swing desktop framework, recently here on Javalobby. To bundle...

0 replies - 6148 views - 08/10/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

JavaFX SDK on Mac OS X with 32-bit systems (yeah, SoyLatte...)

As you know, the JavaFX SDK has been released a week ago for Windows and Mac OS X running on a 64-bit processor. The reason for the latter requirement is that...

6 replies - 7359 views - 08/08/08 by Fabrizio Giudici in News

Improving Exception Handling: One Subtle, One Radical Approach

Exception handling via try...catch...finally has some pointless headaches that really don't have any good reasons for their existence.The ProblemConsider a...

10 replies - 5003 views - 08/07/08 by James Sugrue in News

JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series: Part 1: ProjectStage

This will be the first of a small series of blogs covering proposed new features in JSF 2.0. Keep in mind that none of the features described are final, and...

7 replies - 4127 views - 08/06/08 by Ryan Lubke in News

Efficient XML Processing Using SAX and Java Enums

I had a chance to do some XML crunching lately. I used a design pattern for this purpose which is both efficient and elegant. I'm not sure who thought of this...

9 replies - 6579 views - 08/06/08 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Sometimes Java Makes Me Sad

On any given day I go back and forth as to whether I truly like Java as a language or not. On one hand the automatic memory management is really quite nice....

22 replies - 4630 views - 08/06/08 by jintoreedwine in Articles

Using the JavaFX Preview SDK on Linux

The I Hear Voices: Post JavaFX SDK Preview Release post highlighted some positive feedback from the developer community.  The same post on JavaLobby was met...

7 replies - 3668 views - 08/06/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

CHM Version of JavaFX Documentation

To make it easy to get to grips with the JavaFX Preview SDK, geekycoder has provided a distribution of the documentation in CHM format. Here you can find out...

9 replies - 2558 views - 08/05/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

JavaFX Preview Released: When Will the Madness Stop?

I with many have been a believer in Java on the client. I was excited to learn at JavaOne 07 about JavaFX, and even more excited by the great demos at JavaOne...

41 replies - 5730 views - 08/01/08 by Deane Richan in News

Progress Indicator: Creating a JavaFX Custom Node and Binding to a Model

In the Rolling Your Own JavaFX "Custom Nodes": A Graphical Menu Example post, I began showing you how to create your own UI controls in JavaFX.  In...

12 replies - 2776 views - 07/31/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles