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Worries about "rich web applications"
I've been readinlg a lot of articles about "rich web applications" recently. (for example, here ). I can't help worrying that knee-jerk adoption of such things could greatly reduce the usability of the web, though.

FormLayout and GridBagLayout
I recently joined a project that has switched from GridBagLayout to JGoodies' FormLayout as a standard.? I'm happy about about this decision, because I have been using FormLayout for over a year.? However, one of my fellow developers is very skeptical of FormLayout, believing that GridBagLayout can do anything we need to get done.?

WinLAF 0.5 Released
WinLAF 0.5 has been released. WinLAF 0.5 contains new fixes for 15 inconsistencies in the Java Windows Look & Feel, and a further 24 inconsistencies fixed in previous WinLAF releases. It also contains a number of bugfixes for new issues introduced by WinLAF 0.4.