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Walking on the MoonPosted by editor on June 26, 2007 at 8:59 AM PDT
Another strange trip with Flying Saucer Now here's an irony... despite the usual trend of media formats having being more readable than writable, PDF's may be easier to create than to view in Java SE. Adobe's own PDF component is long out of date, and many alternatives are commercial, although a list at schmidt.devlib.org does show some open-source readers. But for just writing PDF, the open-source iText library is available and quite popular. So popular, in fact, that the Flying Saucer project adopted it as an optional rendering technology. In our Feature Article, Flying Saucer founder Joshua Marinacci takes a look at Generating PDFs for Fun and Profit with Flying Saucer and iText:
In Java Today, the JFXBuilder blog talks about the latest feature effort, MouseOver Animations in JFXBuilder/JavaFX: "This week we've been playing with a user friendly way to easily configure graphical and animated actions for common input events, like MouseOver and MousePressed. JFXBuilder already has a shape custom tailored for this called a "SwitchShape". The basic idea is to select a group of shapes that we want to react to a mouse event, select the menu item "Group in SwitchShape", then simply configure the look of the different "versions" (MouseOver, MousePressed, etc.)." The GlassFish Plugins Project enables IDE users to develop, deploy and run their Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications using their favorite IDEs. Available plugins support NetBeans (included with NetBeans 5.5.1 and 6.0 M9), Eclipse 3.3 Europa with WTP 2.0 RC3, Eclipse IDE 3.2 and MyEclipse. There are also NetBeans plugins for jMaki, Phobos, and more. The project is also actively seeking more developers to develop plugins for other IDE's. ComputerWorld is hosting an excerpt from Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard and Practice by Mark F. Hornick, Erik Marcad and Sunil Venkayala. "This book excerpt uses an example sales campaign to introduce the Java Data Mining application programming interface. From data preparation to modeling to evaluation and deployment, the short example gives a feel for the business problem and solution." In today's Weblogs Greg Murray introduces a jMaki Revolver Widget. "After many requests I have created a re-usable widget for the revolver. The revolver provides an alternative way to provide top level navigation. This widget can run in the context of jMaki or in a regular web page." In SalutafugiJMS -- Java Messaging Service on ZeroConf, David Walend writes: "SalutafugiJMS is a peer-to-peer implementation of the Java Messaging Service specification that uses ZeroConf DNS-SD discovery and TCP sockets to communicate in a distributed computing system. Name the JMS Queues and Topics for information your system needs to exchange. Your system consumes what your system needs. Your system sends out what it chooses. SalutafugiJMS takes care of the rest, leaving your system very loosely coupled." Finally, Felipe Leme offers My suggestion for Servlet 3.0. "The Servlet 3.0 JSR is out. I have a simple - yet very useful - suggestion for improvement. "
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In today's second item involving ZeroConf networking, Current and upcoming Java Events :
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