Iris shows the power of modern Java applets, highlighting the following major features of the Java platform: Dynamic extension of applets: new techniques developed within the past year in the JOGL project allow applets to use OpenGL for 3D graphics, OpenAL for spatialized audio, Java Media codecs, and other extensions previously only available to desktop or Java Web Start applications.
Next-generation web integration: Java applets interoperate well with JavaScript in all major web browsers.
Multi threading support in the Java platform and libraries hides network latency from the end user, and increases the application's throughput.
Native desktop integration supports concepts like drag-and-drop "on to the web".
The Java platform's powerful and flexible security model allows true web service mashups to be created which connect simultaneously to many web services.
The rich image handling and graphics capabilities of the Java core libraries facilitate development of advanced graphical applets and applications.
Richard Bair is an application developer with over 7 years experience in writing SQL database front ends. Four of those years were devoted to writing Java applications based on Swing and JDBC. He is currently tasked with working on the back-end components in JDNC for communicating with various data stores such as RDBMS systems, web services, and EJB servers, as well as working on Swing components and general JDNC project management. He joined Sun Microsystems in November of 2004 as a member of the Swing team, working full time on the JDNC project.
blueMarine— In this talk we will show you the blueMarine project, an opensource desktop application to support the photographic workflow. blueMarine is being designed following the best practices for the creation of a 'filthy rich client', from animations to the use of JOGL, and taking advantage of the rich framework delivered by the NetBeans Rich Client Platform.
Applying CSS styling to Java desktop and web GUIs— CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style such as fonts, colors, and spacing to Web documents. This technology remains today confined to HTML and XML documents, although its principles are suitable for other domains. Let's see how we can use what we know to style Java objects, and then apply one typical styling system, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), to the Java world to enhance the informative level of a user interface.
Spring is Swinging— Java is back on the desktop! We need to deliver high-quality, good-looking, multi-tier swing applications to our customers. How can Spring help us to achieve this at minimal cost?
Eclipse on Swing— Wouldn't it be great, if one had the choice between SWT and Swing not only at the beginning of a project but throughout development? How about using the familiar APIs to develop Eclipse-Plug-ins, RCP-applications or a JFace/SWT-GUI and still keep the option to switch back and forth between SWT and Swing without changes to your code?
JSR-296 Swing Application Framework— Well written Swing applications tend to have the same core elements for startup and shutdown, and for managing resources, actions, and session state. New applications create all of these core elements from scratch. Java SE does not provide any support for structuring applications, and this often leaves new developers feeling a bit adrift, particularly when they're contemplating building an application whose scale goes well beyond the examples provided in the SE documentation. This specification will (finally) fill that void by defining the basic structure of a Swing application. It will define a small set of extensible classes or "framework" that define infrastructure that's common to most desktop applications...
