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Swing Frameworks: Catch the Wave

I spoke at OSCON in Portland, Oregon this week, talking about JSR 295 (Beans Binding), and JSR 296 (the Swing Application Framework).

"Open Source Convention". Isn't that a bit like "Anarchy Government"? Or "Military Intelligence"? Or "Personable Programmer"?

I've never spoken at an open source conference before. I wasn't sure what the protocol was. Was I just supposed to propose an abstract and then people in the audience would fill in the content? Or maybe I was just supposed to talk with the audience about what the presentation should be like eventually, and then set up a mailing list and a source code repository for the future slides that we might create.

Or we could spend the hour debating the license of the presentation, and some of the audience could walk out in protest.

As it was, I decided to go ahead write and deliver the content. Maybe I can collaborate with the community on version 2.0 of the presentation next time around.

My favorite part of the presentation was the Motivation slide, where I tried to describe why these frameworks are so awesome for Swing developers. But don't developers already find Swing programs easy enough to develop? Isn't Swing development like a day at the beach?

A Day at the Beach

Beans Binding and the Application Framework will make Swing development much easier. From the application-lifecycle capabilities that the Application Framework offers, to Beans Binding's ability to automatically connect an application's GUI with the data that drives it, to seamless integration of these libraries with the IDE in NetBeans 6, Swing developers should have a much easier time of it.

Swing frameworks: Catch the wave.

Comments

• "Big Wave" Yep

  Posted by: theanuradha on July 27, 2007 at 10:28 PM

• What about a tsunami

  CodeRight Jazz Desktop Application Framework
  Lets your GUI Swing!
  

  Posted by: coderight on July 28, 2007 at 05:04 AM

• I hate unsubstantiated plugs aka commercials.

  Posted by: tbee on July 30, 2007 at 12:44 AM

• tbee: I think you missed the point a bit - the post was meant to be a quick/amusing blurb about Oscon and the frameworks, not a diatribe on the frameworks themselves. Refer to the materials linked above for that level of detail.

  Posted by: chet on July 30, 2007 at 06:32 AM

• Chet,

  You forgot "MS Security" and "Jumbo Shrimp" to go with your set of Oxymorons. ;-)

  Cheers,
  Ed

  Posted by: cupofjoe on August 16, 2007 at 10:01 AM

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