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responding to questions on Swing, RIA, and JavaFX: JavaOne raised many questions for Swing developers regarding the future of client development and I'd like to take a first stab at answering some of them.
Posted by aim on May 19, 2008 at 09:32 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

Embedding Swing components in a JEditorPane: I was talking to a developer at JavaOne who didn't realize you can use the <object> tag to embed Swing components inside HTML within a JEditorPane. This turns out to be easy, modulo a small hook in the javax.swing.text package. Here I explain in reasonably short form how to do this.
Posted by aim on July 19, 2007 at 07:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (16)  

the smartest person in the room: A special tribute to the person who is most responsible for my survival in this zany field of computers and software.
Posted by aim on May 12, 2007 at 14:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

Invitation to weigh in on the future of javadoc: If you've ever found yourself cursing in silence or otherwise because you can't find the answer to a J2SE programming question in the javadoc, then we have a survey for you...
Posted by aim on January 27, 2006 at 14:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (18)  

The JDNC project debuts: We introduced the concept at JavaOne'03, and now we're taking the JDesktop Network Component (JDNC) project open source on javadesktop just in time for JavaOne'04.
Posted by aim on June 23, 2004 at 12:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Itty Bitty Things: Returning from an extended blog hiatus, I celebrate the beauty in the tiniest usability features and contemplate time lost around the edges of a lackluster user experience. Corporations need to understand the hidden costs of mediocre software and we need to do better as a developer community at delivering the goods.
Posted by aim on November 18, 2003 at 22:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (17)  

Would you run in flipflops?: The death of my cassette player has led me to discover the wonder of a web service client with a real user interface - so I ramble and dream of a world filled with applications that make the overhead of using a computer fall away as the value delivered by those applications increases exponentially.
Posted by aim on July 11, 2003 at 22:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Bugs by moonlight: Strange things happen when the natural and digital worlds collide
Posted by aim on June 27, 2003 at 00:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

hope for pixel pushers: Renewed focus on desktop Java gives us pixel pushers hope...
Posted by aim on June 13, 2003 at 08:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)