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The Rise of the Front End Developers

In any web development company, there exists two different worlds; well there are more, but we’ll just focus on - front end (designers) & back end (developers) The Front end guys are responsible for making something that is visible to the end users...

7 replies - 3619 views - 01/30/12 by Veera Sundar in Articles

Progressive JavaFX Custom Components

I have completed all three of my Progressive JavaFX 2.0 talks in California, at JavaOne 2011, Silicon Valley Code Camp at Foothills College and Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group at Oracle Conference Center.

1 replies - 1861 views - 10/16/11 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles

OAuth in headless applications

OAuth is a wonderful standard: it allows users to give permissions to a third-party service to use theirs accounts on a website; but it works without forcing them to share their password like a phishing website would do.The typical use of OAuth is for...

2 replies - 3546 views - 10/13/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

How to create an RCP application

Select File -> New -> Other… and choose Plug-in Project, then Next. In Project name field let’s give a name to our project, e.g. it.rcpvision.rcptutorial.application leave other options unchanged and press Next.  

1 replies - 5608 views - 08/24/11 by Vincenzo Caselli in Articles

My opinion about JavaFX 2.0

It's been a few weeks since Oracle announced the plans with JavaFX. The JavaFX 2010-2011 roadmap is described at the JavaFX website. As I expected, there were many discussions and opinions in the blogosphere after the announcement. I took some time to read...

2 replies - 5316 views - 08/02/11 by Johan Vos in Articles

Binding Scala Objects to Swing Components

If you do Swing application development, especially the enterprise application type you know lots of code that looks like this:

0 replies - 2998 views - 07/23/11 by Jens Schauder in Articles

UI Testing with Eclipse Jubula: Executing the Tests

In my last blog post, everything was pure theory (if you’re looking for the start of the Jubula series, look here): I specified a few tests, but there’s no connection yet to any real application under test. Let’s rectify this!

0 replies - 4958 views - 06/13/11 by Joachim Hofer in Articles

15 Must Know UI Development Questions

These questions can also be used in interviews.  If you are stuck with a question, please leave comment here on my blog.The questions are of basic and intermediate level. Moreover, the interviewer can ask you some and not all of these questions.

4 replies - 7083 views - 06/02/11 by Extreme Java in Articles

Rebooted: JavaFX 2.0 Beta Released

Oracle released the beta SDK for JavaFX 2.0 yesterday, following up on the announcement from last years JavaOne that JavaFX was to be rebooted. The major differencein the new version is that it provides Java APIs for JavaFX, allowing you to use JavaFX from...

12 replies - 6013 views - 05/27/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

What is the Next, Next Big Thing?

Many people wonder what the "next big thing" will be in technology, but Alasdair Allan, a published technology author and consultant, thinks that people need to start thinking about the next, next big thing. According to Allan, the last "big...

1 replies - 7524 views - 05/24/11 by Ross Jernigan in News

Java - Client Side Development or Enterprise Only?

Before I begin, I must warn everyone about the age old (Java Server vs. Java Desktop) battleI'm a big fan of Java (must be, as I was developing in it since 1997, and getting to grips with the new AWT event model in Java 1.1)I do notice that the posts in the...

14 replies - 4156 views - 04/12/11 by Chris Clark in News

A Better Java Webstart for Standalone Apps

Webstart is a nice solution for deploying Java applications. But when it comes to a corporate environment, it has a not-so-small problem: The Java Runtime System itself. If several applications share the same Runtime, you may get into version trouble—Some...

11 replies - 5815 views - 03/03/11 by Michael Schnell in Articles

Changing the Look & Feel of Your Swing Application

Adam Bien has been running a great series entitled "Swing Looks Great", where he highlights some of the awesome Swing look & feels that are available to breathe new life into your Java application. It's been a while since I've used Swing for an...

6 replies - 4705 views - 12/08/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Swing Looks ...Great (Part III Nimbus)

Nimbus comes already with JDK 1.6. Nimbus doesn't have to be installed, it is shipped with JDK 1.6. You only have to activate it. There is a hacky (because of reflection) but robust way to activate that. This complex approach...

0 replies - 5806 views - 12/01/10 by adam bien in Articles

Integrating Flex 4 and Spring 3 based JMS Applications

This article explains the essentials of leveraging the Spring BlazeDS project to integrate Spring based JMS systems with Flex powered rich internet applications (RIAs).  The fundamental concepts involved in the integration of Spring and Flex are explained...

1 replies - 10506 views - 11/29/10 by Shashank Tiwari in Articles