JIDE Software 1.8.0 Release JIDE Software announces the 1.8.0 release of all the products. As always, there are a lot of exciting new features in this release.
Visual Designer for JIDE Docking Framework and Action Framework
The most exciting feature is probably the new Visual Designer. Visual Designer allows you to use drag-n-drop to visually design the layout of dockable frames and command bars, and save it as an xml file.
Xerto LookAndFeel
JIDE supports many different LookAndFeels such as Office 2003, Vsnet, Eclipse, Aqua etc. In this release, we introduced a new one call Xerto LookAndFeel. Xerto gets its name from its creator http://www.xerto.com/. They will soon release their first product called Imagery. If you haven't, you must go to their website and check it out. It's a wonderful looking application with a very polished LookAndFeel. Not only that, they were generous enough to share the LookAndFeel with us so that all JIDE customers can use it for free. Thanks Jasper for this great looking LookAndFeel!
New Components
We introduced several new components. CheckBoxList is a list that supports JCheckBox as list element. AutoResizingTextArea is a special text area which automatically resizes itself vertically when its content grows. JideScrollPane now supports scroll bar corners.
Anti-Alias Text
We added anti-alias text support for JDK 1.5. If you run with system property swing.aatext=true, all JIDE components will use anti-alias font to draw the text.
JIDE and Spring RCP integration
There are many customers showing their interesting in JIDE and Spring RCP integration. In fact, a couple of customers successful did it. They shared their results at https://jide-springrcp.dev.java.net/. It's an open source project so all of you are welcomed to check it out and contribute to it.
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