Laird Nelson's Blog http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/ en-us 2008-07-31T10:25:12-08:00 Nimbus and Opacity http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2008/07/nimbus_and_opac.html Want a text field with a non-opaque background when using Nimbus? Read on. Swing ljnelson 2008-07-31T10:25:12-08:00 Useful Swing Thing #1 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2007/12/useful_swing_th.html The first of (hopefully) a series of quick, useful Swing tips. Swing ljnelson 2007-12-17T12:35:41-08:00 Objects and Strings and the Wrangling Thereof (Part 2) http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2007/08/objects_and_str_2.html Part two of a series, in which we look at (and recoil in horror from) the java.text.Format class. Swing ljnelson 2007-08-31T08:07:45-08:00 Objects and Strings and the Wrangling Thereof http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2007/08/objects_and_str.html PropertyEditors, Formats, and JFormattedTextFields, oh my! Swing ljnelson 2007-08-27T10:49:39-08:00 Anemic vs. Obese Domain Objects http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2006/07/anemic_vs_obese.html In which we discuss the design of a good domain object. Patterns ljnelson 2006-07-11T09:34:07-08:00 Of Detachable Root Panes and Desktop Hopping http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2005/06/of_detachable_r.html How to build a desktop-hopping JRootPane subclass. Swing ljnelson 2005-06-20T16:06:09-08:00 Cheap Hack I: rename your jar file, get a different Main-Class http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2004/09/cheap_hack_i_re.html How to get a different Main-Class for your jar file based off the jar file's name. J2SE ljnelson 2004-09-20T12:09:45-08:00 Seventeenth century object design http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ljnelson/archive/2004/09/seventeenth_cen.html John Locke on designing reusable objects. Programming ljnelson 2004-09-02T08:10:31-08:00