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  • Let's Tango! (Swing icons) Icons are very important for creating user interfaces. What about icon sets for Swing? I'm tired of having to google, download, pack and use icons for my Swing applications. Things should be easier. I'd like to visually select icons in NetBeans. What about building some icon themes for Swing that we can swap at runtime? And... what about a NetBeans module?
  • Tango! Mambo! Swing! (Swing Icons II) Building Swing icon sets (and a Swing Icon Viewer!) with... properties files? Why not? After all icon designers don't need to know Java. They're doing an excellent job building icons, so I don't see a reason why they should know Java. A small Java Web Start demo is included.
  • Making NetBeans dance Tango, part I (Swing Icons III) So as promised I tried to build a NetBeans module that allows you to visually choose icons and... I almost got it working.
  • Impressive Swing Application An impressive Swing application that has been the subject in a recent thread in the SwingX mailing list.
  • SwingX API Review moves on! ... and there're some interesting discussions going on too...

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  • Persistence in desktop applications Will you bundle a full RDMBS with your GUI applications? How are you persisting the model in your desktop applications? What are the trends in this area?
  • No RDBMS, No SQL: too heavy, too classic, too much a hassle I'm afraid I'll insist in desktop persistence without RDBMS in this entry (and maybe in a few others).
  • Playing with JDBM (I) Experiments with JDBM
  • Three great weeks... and three great days! I've been traveling a lot lately. It's been one week in La Coruña and two other weeks at Lisbon. And, well, I've learned a lot. During these three weeks I've been gently introduced to Sun Java Studio Creator, I've learned a lot about MySQL internals, I've realized how people tend to not follow the KISS principle, I've experienced SwingX components inside NetBeans, I've met great friends at Lisbon and, most importantly, I've realized how much people need a good binding mechanism for Swing applications. Now it's time to have a rest in Madrid for three days. A rest? Well, we have Java Expo 2006, Sun Tech Days and... the NetBeans World Tour!!
  • Playing with JDBM (II) I'm still doing some research on lightweight persistence for my desktop applications. I've been exploring JDBM in further detail: I'm able to do m:n relationships without too much hassle.
  • Wrap it around a (J) Tree! I don't mean you have to wrap your car around a tree like this. I'm talking of JTrees and Drag and Drop support.
  • JavaONE Slides for the late ones Are you looking for the JavaOne slides, but you did not download them while you had the chance? Wilfred Springer has grouped and posted them.
  • TreeWrapper updated: arrange your OPML documents! After some short holidays, I have been doing some little improvements in TreeWrapper, an easy to use wrapper that allows for drag and drop on JTrees. Improvements include support for JDK 1.4, better handling of popup menus, better performance, support for disabled trees and some other minor things. To verify that everything is working I built a simple to use OPML editor, that you can use to arrange your RSS feeds into categories.
  • Let's Tango! (Swing icons) Icons are very important for creating user interfaces. What about icon sets for Swing? I'm tired of having to google, download, pack and use icons for my Swing applications. Things should be easier. I'd like to visually select icons in NetBeans. What about building some icon themes for Swing that we can swap at runtime? And... what about a NetBeans module?
  • Tango! Mambo! Swing! (Swing Icons II) Building Swing icon sets (and a Swing Icon Viewer!) with... properties files? Why not? After all icon designers don't need to know Java. They're doing an excellent job building icons, so I don't see a reason why they should know Java. A small Java Web Start demo is included.
  • Impressive Swing Application An impressive Swing application that has been the subject in a recent thread in the SwingX mailing list.
  • Chambermaid Swing... rocks! This has nothing to do with Swing but with music! I've adquired the latest from Parov Stelar and, well, Chambermaid Swing just rocks!
  • Doing Java since 1996 It seems Microsoft's latest service pack is badly affecting JFileChooser...
  • SwingX API Review moves on! ... and there're some interesting discussions going on too...
  • Autogenerated Java Beans, anyone?
  • JDBM: More interesting links Some more interesting links for the JDBM tiny Java Database Manager library.
  • TextWrapper I: Don't redo Undo/Redo!
  • Compiz (beryl), Xgl and Java New Java 6.0 u1 solves a problem with compiz and beryl, hurray!
  • Cardinal Splines in Java Ever wanted to draw a curve passing through different points?
  • On constant databases Why constant databases are (still) important

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  • TreeWrapper updated: arrange your OPML documents! After some short holidays, I have been doing some little improvements in TreeWrapper, an easy to use wrapper that allows for drag and drop on JTrees. Improvements include support for JDK 1.4, better handling of popup menus, better performance, support for disabled trees and some other minor things. To verify that everything is working I built a simple to use OPML editor, that you can use to arrange your RSS feeds into categories.
  • Let's Tango! (Swing icons) Icons are very important for creating user interfaces. What about icon sets for Swing? I'm tired of having to google, download, pack and use icons for my Swing applications. Things should be easier. I'd like to visually select icons in NetBeans. What about building some icon themes for Swing that we can swap at runtime? And... what about a NetBeans module?
  • Tango! Mambo! Swing! (Swing Icons II) Building Swing icon sets (and a Swing Icon Viewer!) with... properties files? Why not? After all icon designers don't need to know Java. They're doing an excellent job building icons, so I don't see a reason why they should know Java. A small Java Web Start demo is included.
  • Making NetBeans dance Tango, part I (Swing Icons III) So as promised I tried to build a NetBeans module that allows you to visually choose icons and... I almost got it working.
  • TextWrapper I: Don't redo Undo/Redo!
  • Cooking an editor for Scheme Files with the NetBeans Platform I have cooked a part of the editor for Scheme Files using the NetBeans Platform. And while doing so I've found some delicious editor libs!
  • Cooking options with the NetBeans Platform Fonts, colors, key bindings, caret blink rate and more. Persisted. With a single class. This rocks!
  • Cardinal Splines in Java Ever wanted to draw a curve passing through different points?
  • Launching system processes from Java applications Tired of Runtime.getRuntime().exec() annoyances? This may help you!

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  • Hola, mundo Pues ya iba siendo hora de empezar a escribir en castellano, ¿no?
  • Hola, mundo Spanish version available! From now on I'll start blogging in spanish as well. NetBeans Scheme IDE: New section on how to add syntax support to your EditorKits.
  • Inyección de dependencias: simple y sencilla. ¿Inyección de depencencias? Pero si... ¡es facilísimo!

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