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Alexander Potochkin is an engineer on the Swing team. He enjoys solving puzzles, traveling to different countries and always returning to Saint Petersburg, Russia.

JDK 7 is moving forward!

Java desktop team is working hard to move JDK7 forward.

I am happy to announce that Nimbus Look and Feel has been forward ported to JDK 7.
Among all other changes, the latest build #b57 contains the fix for 6591875: Nimbus Swing Look and Feel.

It is a real pleasure to see the Nimbus LaF under "javax.swing.plaf" package! Check it out with the recent JDK 7 binaries.

JXLayer will also be there soon, stay tuned...

Thanks
alexp

SAF team is looking for experienced contributors

As I promised in the previous entry, the work on the Swing Application Framework has been restarted. We already fixed a bunch of bugs, including #95, #69, #82 and we are not going to stop.

During our internal meetings we decided that we should be more in contact with developers who have experience in creating real applications on Swing. Only if you got trough all the obstacles you can give a good advice how to make it right. A good advice is valuable but a good code is even more welcome.

We are looking for experienced contributors who creates successful applications on Swing and can prove this fact by providing links to their projects, forums or blogs. We especially interested in practical solutions on making the same Swing application look native on different platforms (Windows, Linux and certainly Mac OS) and managing application's actions.

The SAF is an open source project which may be included to the core JDK, to contribute you will have to sign Sun Contributor Agreement. For the code quality sake, all the proposals will be discussed and the code will be internally reviewed before any change.

If you meet the requirements and want to work together with the Swing team on this project please let me know either by leaving a comment for this entry or sending an email to alexfromsun at dev.java.net

Let's make Swing easier!

Thanks
alexp

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