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- Mapping Mashups with the JXMapViewer by Joshua Marinacci - [Clicks: 30]
Having introduced SwingLabs' JXMapViewer and JXMapKit in a previous article, Joshua Marinacci puts these components to work by showing how you can bring in geographic data from external sources and use Painters to create custom geodata GUIs.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/11/13/mapping-mashups-with-jxmapviewer.html - Nov, 2007 - Building Maps into Your Swing Application with the JXMapViewer by Joshua Marinacci - [Clicks: 42]
Mapping is a common feature of many applications, and a new component from SwingLabs makes it easy to add maps to your Java GUI application. Joshua Marinacci shows you how to adding maps to your Swing app can be as simple as dropping a JXMapViewer component into a NetBeans layout.
[Includes sample code]
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/10/30/building-maps-into-swing-app-with-jxmapviewer.html - Oct, 2007 - Create Moving Experiences with Animated Transitions by Chet Haase - [Clicks: 17]
A GUI that radically changes its layout as it goes from one mode to the other can be jarring to users. A new trend is for changes in content or context to be animated, so the user can see the nature of the changes. In an example inspired by the the Filthy Rich Clients book he co-authored, Chet Haase introduces an Animated Transitions library that can help you achieve these effects in your Swing application.
[Includes source code]
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/10/23/create-moving-experiences-with-animated-transitions.html - Oct, 2007 - Naked Objects 3.0 by Richard Pawson - [Clicks: 19]
Naked Objects is an open-source Java-based framework, that takes a POJO domain object model and turns it into a complete, executable application. This article walks through Naked Object's appeal, features, and changes.
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=NakedObjects3 - Oct, 2007 - Fling Scroller by Jan Haderka - [Clicks: 13]
Does your Swing work focus on "look" and not so much on "feel"? The gestures available to a user can make a big difference in how your UI is enjoyed. In this article, Jan Haderka introduces a new behavior to JLists to allow users to "fling" off the top or bottom of the list and have the scrolling continue briefly as a result of the gesture.
[Includes sample code]
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/09/27/fling-scroller.html - Sep, 2007 - Swing-based tree layouts with CheckboxTree by Lorenzo Bigagli, Enrico Boldrini - [Clicks: 27]
Application GUIs commonly feature checkbox-enabled tree layouts, but you won't find such a component in the Swing toolkit. You will find one here, though -- open source, extensible, and ready for use in your Swing development projects.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2007/jw-09-checkboxtree.html - Sep, 2007 - Debugging Swing by Kirill Grouchnikov - [Clicks: 25]
Proper Swing programming depends on widely known but unenforced rules about the proper handling of the event-dispatch thread, and failure to follow those rules leads to many Swing problems. In this article, Kirill Grouchnikov shows off techniques to find and fix bugs relating to Swing EDT misuse.
[Includes sample code]
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/08/30/debugging-swing.html - Aug, 2007 - Swing threading and the event-dispatch thread by John Zukowski - [Clicks: 27]
John Zukowski explains the origins of Swing's single-threaded event model, then introduces a thread-related bug that could pose a threat to your Swing programs.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2007/jw-08-swingthreading.html - Aug, 2007 - What's the Matter with JMatter? by Eitan Suez - [Clicks: 8]
In this article, Eitan Suez discusses how to use his JMatter framework for rapid development of rich client applications. JMatter is an implementation of the 'Naked Objects' design pattern.
[Includes source code]
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/08/16/whats-the-matter-with-jmatter.html - Aug, 2007 - Adding Auto-Completion Support to Swing Comboboxes by Kirill Grouchnikov - [Clicks: 28]
Auto-completion, as seen in browser address bars (among other GUIs), can be a very useful and much appreciated trait for input fields in your GUI. However, all of the second-generation Java GUI toolkits provide the feature differently. Kirill Grouchnikov shows how to add auto-completion to comboboxes in GlazedLists, SwingX, JIDE, and Laf-Widget.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/07/19/adding-auto-completion-to-swing-comboboxes.html - Jul, 2007 - Test-driven GUI development with FEST by Alex Ruiz - [Clicks: 25]
Even a developer testing enthusiast like Alex Ruiz had to admit GUI testing was hard, so he created FEST, the functional library for test-driven GUI development. This follow-up to Alex's JavaOne 2007 presentation includes example code and video demonstrations to get you started with FEST.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2007/jw-07-fest.html - Jul, 2007 - Using the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) by John O'Conner - [Clicks: 35]
If you've developed many applications using a Swing-based graphical user interface (GUI), you can benefit from the Swing Application Framework, which is currently being developed as part of Java Specification Request (JSR) 296.
[Includes sample code]
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/swingappfr/ - Jul, 2007 - Use JGraph to create a Wikipedia browser by Jeroen van Bergen - [Clicks: 22]
Get started with JGraph, an open source, Swing-based library for creating graphs. Learn how to use JGraph to display complex data in a simplified, meaningful format in your Java desktop or Web applications.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2007/jw-07-jgraph.html - Jul, 2007 - Intro to JGoodies Validation by Lance Finney - [Clicks: 27]
JGoodies Validation simplifies user input validation and notification for Swing applications. In this article, we have seen the power of the basic validation framework and the usability features of the framework that assist users with data requirements.
http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/jnbJul2007.html - Jul, 2007 - Notifications in a Java/Swing Application by Rob Lybarger - [Clicks: 23]
Reduce component coupling by adding a simple one-to-many notification system to your application, and let the recipients decide what to do.
[Includes source code]
http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3685486 - Jun, 2007 - MVC in a Java/Swing Application: A Simple Demo by Michael Klaene - [Clicks: 74]
The Model-View-Control concept tells you to separate your display components from your business logic. Explore one approach for getting this separation in a simple Swing application.
[Includes source code]
http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3678856 - May, 2007 - Java SE Application Design With MVC by Robert Eckstein - [Clicks: 51]
GUI programmers: Learn how to implement a common variation of the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern using Java SE and the Swing toolkit.
[Includes source code]
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/mvc/ - Mar, 2007 - The Recursive Filtering Workbench in Java, Putting it all Together by Richard G. Baldwin - [Clicks: 12]
Like the keystone in an arch, this final installment will teach about two inner classes that form the keystone of the interactive recursive filtering workbench.
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3662236 - Feb, 2007 - How to Write a Custom Swing Component by Kirill Grouchnikov - [Clicks: 43]
You want a GUI component with a unique behavior, and Swing doesn't offer exactly what you need. So what do you do, go without? Hardly. Swing's flexibility allows you to develop custom components with any functionality you care to model and render. Substance project owner Kirill Grouchnikov shows how this is done.
[Includes sample code]
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/02/22/how-to-write-custom-swing-component.html - Feb, 2007 - Java Fun and Games: Tips from the Java grab bag by Jeff Friesen - [Clicks: 18]
Check out these useful tips for enhancing Java programs and see how to employ them in an image-grabber application.
[Includes source code]
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2007/jw-0102-games.html - Jan, 2007 - JList Striping by Joshua Marinacci - [Clicks: 26]
One of the great things about Swing is that you can customize your components to look like whatever you want. It has become quite common to add a slightly custom look to standard desktop applications. In iTunes, for example, song lists look mostly normal but have some very subtle changes that make the interface look nicer. This tip will show you how to style a standard Swing list with an alternating stripe background and a gradient shaded selection.
http://java.sun.com/mailers/techtips/corejava/2006/tt1118.html#2 - Jan, 2007
