Swing

DJ NativeSwing 0.9.5 - State-of-the-art native component integration for Swing

DJ Native Swing 0.9.5 is finally out! And this is great news for us who just want to integrate native components in our rich Java Swing applications.

6 replies - 2068 views - 05/16/08 by Christopher Deckers in Announcements

Flex Layout Vs Java Layout - First impressions

At work I was asked to take a look at Flex. I know a lot of people point to Flex as something Java should aspire to. With that in mind I had high hopes for the...

7 replies - 8159 views - 05/15/08 by cfagan in News

Why Swing / JavaFX is not a platform (yet)

If a platform is a set of resources (both code and data) which can be organized to create an application, then the usefulness of a given platform is defined by...

40 replies - 4018 views - 05/15/08 by Jonathan Locke in News

FlexGantt 1.1 Swing UI Framework

Release 1.1 of FlexGantt, the Gantt Charting framework for Java,  is available for download now. FlexGantt is a commercial user interface framework built on...

2 replies - 3034 views - 04/30/08 by Dirk in Announcements

MiG Layout 3.5 - SWT/Swing LayoutManager

MiG Layout 3.5 is a Layout Manager for Swing and SWT that is very easy to use, yet extremely powerful when needed. It has a syntax that resembles CSS and...

6 replies - 3735 views - 04/28/08 by Mikael Grev in Announcements

SwingSet 3 in JDK 6 u10 Beta

Part of the new Sun JDK 6 update 10 also called Consumer JRE is a new SwingSet demo, named SwingSet 3. I've decided to run it and to give you a few...

6 replies - 11649 views - 04/04/08 by Anthony Goubard in News

JDICPlus: Has JDIC Received CPR?

Just in time for JavaOne, it looks like Sun and the community have breathed some new life into the JDIC, the JDesktop Integration Components, a project that...

8 replies - 4476 views - 03/31/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Why Does JavaFX Get to Cheat?

Why does JavaFX get to do things that would be frowned upon if done in plain old Java?

14 replies - 5718 views - 03/25/08 by cfagan in News

The secret life of a DefaultTreeModel

This is a draft of a small tutorial I have been attempting to submit to Sun for inclusion in the official Java tutorial. Unfortunately they are very busy...

6 replies - 10442 views - 03/21/08 by cfagan in News

DJ NativeSwing - reloaded: JWebBrowser, JFlashPlayer, JVLCPlayer, JHTMLEditor.

Today's release of DJ Native Swing 0.9.4 greatly improves stability and brings new components: in addition to the JWebBrowser and JFlashPlayer, there is now...

47 replies - 13306 views - 03/12/08 by Christopher Deckers in News

Run popular Swing apps inside your RCP application, like JFreeChart and Jasper Reports

TrioMii, the maker of the SwingRCP software development add-on to the Eclipse platform just annouced the latest release of their latest version 1.1.0 is...

1 replies - 1948 views - 02/16/08 by ctai in Announcements

Substance 4.2 Swing look-and-feel released

It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 4.2 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Memphis). Substance look-and-feel is a...

4 replies - 5385 views - 02/05/08 by Kirill Grouchnikov in News

Mixing Swing and Native Components

DJ Native Swing is a nice solution to embed native components (Web Browser, Flash Player, etc.).There was still a general issue that this library did not...

44 replies - 5068 views - 02/04/08 by Christopher Deckers in News

Pagosoft's Look and Feel for Java Swing

I'm not a very big fan of "look and feels". My perspective on them is the same as for butter: "Hey, it's butter, great, but what's the point of...

0 replies - 5101 views - 02/02/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

JSF passes Swing as the number one Java GUI component model for job demand

Kito suggested I change the search from JSF and java to (jsf or "JavaServer Faces" or "Java Server Faces") and java.JSF passed Swing as the number one GUI...

8 replies - 8168 views - 01/28/08 by Rick Hightower in News