This looks interesting. *FINALLY* upgrade for old’n’ugly Metal L&F. Announcing Nimbus
Read moreGetting over grids…
For a chance, something different like Table Layout can be tried to spice up UI development. Just adding some extra sugar wrapper layer over it, and easy UI layout definition is served. Ok, practise is always naturally different… For example, TableLayout does not answer question of aligning layout between widgets, like two composite widgets in…
Read moreHectic events in life
And to counter-balance it, few nice bits for java references: Swing Components JXTreeTable Misc links Client Java Pondetring over Serialization Optimization: Serialization JSerial Fast Object Serialization uka.transport Fast Serialization Unsafe: neat, eh? Not so, and actually it doesn’t work (SecurityException). Unsafe exception Unsafe memory
Read moreSwing L&F: Synthetica
Synthetica Customize Synthetica Look and Feel … How to Set the Look and Feel
Read moreObfuscation safe reflection
Q: How to ensure that code can be obfuscated, but reflection API benefits for action invoking could be used? A: In JDK 5.0 solution exists, just use annotations. So how to do such. 1) Define appropriate annotation [code lang=”java”] @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Target(ElementType.METHOD) public @interface Call { int value(); } [/code] 2) Define reflection action to use…
Read moreColumn spanning
How to do column spanning in JTable. Plus few more usefull links and articles in SwingWiki
Read moredocking : Java Glossary
Various docking libraries for Swing docking : Java Glossary
Read more[…] in table cell
This might be handy: […] in table cell
Read moreSlobodan – java talking…
Seems to contain some interesting stuff Slobodan Celenkovic Weblog
Read moreImproved Drag Gesture in Swing
Improved Drag Gesture in Swing I.e. in JDK 5.0: [code lang=”perl”] java -Dsun.swing.enableImprovedDragGesture APPCLASSNAME [/code]
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