Through the Looking Glass Having heard a few rumors about Project Looking Glass, I was still unprepared for the difference of this desktop...What follows is my interview with Hideya Kawahara, creator of Project Looking Glass...
JIDE products 1.6.1 release
JIDE Software announces 1.6.1 release of its products. One of the main features introduced in this release is the improvement of gradient paint performance. As Office 2003 L&F heavily uses gradient paint, this improvement will boost the performance especially on lower-end graphics cards. If you have a slow graphics card, please try it out.
Convincing Clients of Java Benefits I have an old C / Win32 API application that needs a major overhaul to make it support new features that the client needs. However, many of these new features include such things as networking ability, which are difficult to implement safely in C and Win32. Because of the difficulties involved in adding the features to the C application, I am considering the possibility that it might be easier to rewrite the entire application in Java and Swing.
JetBee Java print library goes open source
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Is platform independence Java's biggest selling point on the client?
By far, the biggest reason for customer lock-in to certain platforms is because the applications they need to run are either only available for that platform, or the versions available for other platforms are not fully compatible, and thus changing to another platform is a major untertaking...
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