Everytime I take a day off everyone writes about client related java...
IconExperience - Updated with 350+ new icons
Over the last months INCORS GmbH has created more than 350 new icons for the IconExperience icon collections. Just two days ago we have added the new icons to our collections, which now contain more than 1500 icons in total.
JDS as a gaming platform?
Ricardo Wagemaker of of GCCLinux.com talks about why they are making a major push for Java Desktop System combined with Looking Glass as a powerful gaming platform. Sun, according to Ricardo, is really the first company to make a serious effort at brining Unix onto the desktop.
Introducing JDesktop Integration Components, Part 1
If you have been a Java developer for a while you may have had the experience of being told that Java can't do everything that native C can. You may have struggled with the HMTLEditor pane while Windows developers down the hall embed Internet Explorer into their programs with just a few lines of code. I'll admit it: as great as Java is, there are times I long for the features and system access of native programming. Well, we don't have to wait any longer...
Project Looking Glass brings 3D windowing capabilities and other advances that offer a dramatically rich user experience for desktop users. Get insights into Project Looking Glass from its creator, Hideya Kawahara, and from two key engineers on the Project Looking Glass team: Paul Byrne, and Deron Johnson.
ICal4j
iCal4j is a Java library used to read and write iCalendar data streams as defined in RFC2445. Providing both a parser and an object model, iCal4j allows you to either modify existing iCalendar data or create new data models. Validation is also provided to
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Java Web Start and Bugster
So we moved our monolithic bug tracking tool into Java Web Start and called it 'Bugster'. No longer can you open up a new bug - you now open up a 'change request'. So, the new app feels better, and it's certainly a lot faster than the old interface, but a couple of things still bug the crap out of me...
CLI-on-the-GUI
Quicksilver has totally changed my way of computing. Yes, I?m late to the game in announcing it?s virtues to the world, but there?s something that has to be said about this: Quicksilver is the regular user?s command-line.
ICEpdf 1.1
ICEsoft Technologies has announced the release of version 1.1 of ICEpdf, a Java software development kit for rendering PDF content. ICEpdf supports font embedding and substitution, viewing, navigating, and printing. New features include support for Acrobat standard security, document information and permissions, and improved memory management and font substitution.
And then there were more than 50: More Swing Component Libraries
The javadesktop.org Swing Component Depot column has a backlog of more than 50 component suites. They'll all appear there eventually however we thought you'd like to see the queue now, in all its unadorned glory. So, here for your delectation is a brief summary of all 50+ of them.
Working in Swing Event Thread
I often meet this small problem to solve: according to the value of some check box, I have to enable/disable all the Components on a given Panel. Now, as a first approach, I tried naively this line of code...
Java app reveals NYC security cams
A privacy advocacy group has teamed up with an MIT researcher to create a Java application that maps surveillance cameras in Manhattan. Handheld users can use the application to be aware of and avoid the cameras, which can be added to the database at the group's website, Applied Autonomy.
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