Java Archive

There is a nice Flash tutorial for java swing-threading subject. Explaining why some swing applications are not responsive, and ways of resolving those problems.

This tutorial demonstrates how to develop Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) applications for Nokia handsets using the Eclipse IDE and the Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME.

IBM has updated its well known Reflexive User Interface Builder for constructing and rendering graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Java Swing and Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) based upon a descriptive XML document. Version 1.1 includes the capacity to validate Eclipse SWT GUIs, generate Java source for GUIs constructed by RIB, and embed Java source code in RIB documents. See new developer article on RIB that shows you how to Build Java GUIs simply and quickly.

To help TXSeries Encina users leverage the J2EE environment, this article describes how to develop Web-based applications using the Encina J2EE Connector. It walks you through various programming and configuration techniques for developing and deploying applications using the Encina J2EE Connector, introduced in TXSeries V5.1.

Sun Microsystem has just released the early access editíon of J2SE 6.0 (Mustang).

The ubiquity and utility of Ant as a build tool for Java projects is virtually unsurpassed. Even Maven, the new, upstart utility in the build arena, owes much of its power to lessons learned from Ant. This article introduces Groovy's builder utility, which makes it especially easy to combine Groovy with Ant and Maven for more expressive and controllable builds.

Sun has put its TestingComatiblityKit (TCK) for Java under a "Read-Only-License". This means that you are allowed to look at the source-code but you are not allowed to modify or compile it. For more information, a couple of Sun people's blogs address the subject here and here. For a perspective from outside Sun, see here and here. Read the license here. And retrieve the source code of the TCK here.

Lee Nackman, IBM VP of Design, Construction, and Test Tools Development and CTO of Rational Software, and Jim Russell, IBM Lotus Software Director of Application Development Tools, explain how IBM is leveraging Eclipse with the Cloudscape Java database and with IBM Workplace Client Technology, Rich Client Edition to become a strong tool for cross-platform deployments.

There is a new open source library allows hard real time Java applications, without garbage collection and offering faster collections, Strings etc.

A flaw in Sun Microsystems's plug-in for running Java on a variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to spread through Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs.

JetBrains IDEA developer, Sergey Dmitriev, talks future programming paradigms and the problems with today's programming models.

GNU Classpath includes all native methods and core classes necessary for a completely functional Java runtime. This release features X.509 certificate path checking, signed JAR file support, full java.awt.color implementation, java.beans 1.4 updates, an improved build process, better AWT focus management, much faster and better fonts support, AWT Choice fixes, HTTP POST fixes, better collection documentation, Calendar bugfixes, lookahead support for regular expressions, fixes for jtree, and improved Eclipse 3 support.

"Having heard a few rumors about Project Looking Glass, I was still unprepared for the difference of this desktop: a translucent 3D space that looked like it had come out of a virtual reality "playback" experience from Strange Days (Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Tom Sizemore, 1995), an amazing sci-fi thriller that both predates and smokes The Matrix." Read the article here.

SWT is an emerging Java GUI toolkit that gives Java developers access to the operating system's native widgets in a cross-platform manner. After using it for several major projects, I have found myself implementing certain tasks repeatedly, so this series of articles endevors to share a few of the insights I have gained to make working with this toolkit more rewarding.