Application Framework Prototype Bows

I've made a prototype of the fledgling JSR-296 API available, it's https://appframework.dev.java.net/. There's a quick overview doc and downloads of the source code, the javadoc, and the AppFramework.jar file. If you're interested in this API, please take a look at the overview, and download the code and then take a look at some of the examples and the javadoc. You can post feedback here or, if you want to participate in the long-term discussion, subscribe to the appframework.dev.java.net "users" mailing list: https://appframework.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList . The users alias is the last one listed.

That's all I really wanted to say. I don't want to make too much of a commotion about this version of the design because there's still quite a bit that remains to be done. I was hoping that this would be a sort-of stealth release: not terribly noticeable, unless you know where to look. On the other hand, I know there are Swing developers who aren't members of the JSR-296 expert group, who'd like to take stock of where this project is going. And I know there are experienced Swing developers out there, some of whom have built their own application frameworks, that would like see how this one measures up. I'd welcome feedback from anyone who's interested and I'll promise to respond promptly, unless you bring up a really difficult issue or a really large number of them. That might take longer.

Note also: the JCP defines a milestone called "Early Draft Review" that means the expert group thinks the spec is complete enough to begin fine tuning. We have not reached that milestone yet.