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The JDNC project debuts

At JavaOne '97, we kicked off project Swing and as we raised the toolkit scaffolding in the crazy months that followed, we released frequent snapshots of the bits to get our developer base (or at least a hardy core) in on the action. Feedback, both positive and 'constructive', was relentless, and the API improved steadily because of it. We still get email from folks who tell us they've been using Swing since those 0.2 days, and we always bow our heads in honor.

So we're looking to get you in early on the action again. This time with a new technology called JDesktop Network Components (JDNC), which takes on the goal of simplifying development of data-centric Java desktop clients by providing shortcuts in the form of high level Swing components and an optional XML configuration language. Taking advantage of the open source boon, we're launching this as a javadesktop.org project, from which we can involve you not only in trying the stuff out, but in shaping and coding it directly. The JDNC project is a place where we can explore solutions and tune them long before they get baked into a standard. It is still in the rough early stage, so your impact could be significant.

So read up about JDNC in my latest article, visit our project site, and join in on making it happen. After all, who knows better than you what would make your development life easier.

And for those of you heading to San Francisco next week, we'll be at JavaOne talking more about the project. Come chat directly with us:

• TS-2865: JDesktop Network Components (JDNC): Simplifying JavaTM Desktop Client Construction
  Tuesday 1:30 PM Hall E #135
• Hands-on Lab-7222: Rapid Data-Driven Client Construction with JDesktop Network Components (JDNC) XML Configuration Language
  
  • Monday 2:15 PM Hall E 132/133
  • Tuesday 12:15 PM Hall E 132/133
  • Wednesday 12:15 PM Hall E 132/133
  • Thursday 1:00 PM Hall E 132/133
• BOF-2859: Meet the JavaTM Foundation Classes (JFC/Swing) Team
  Wednesday 7:30 PM Esplanade 302
• JDNC Demos in J2SE Client Pavilion Booth

Comments

• This looks great...will Sun use it? Amy, JDNC looks great. Is there any chance of it being used by either java.net or java.sun.com? I would love to see an interface for Bug Parade that took advantage of this technology--and that's just off of the top of my head. I hope this doesn't meet the same fate as the Java web services technology. Sun provides the tools for web services, but fails to use them to make their sites more useful to their users. Even if JDNC somehow misses the mark, Swing was quite an accomplishment. I'm also curious to know what you think about Buoy, the possibility of providing a Swing implementation of SWT, and the community effort to make Swing better. - Curt

  Posted by: coxcu on June 24, 2004 at 07:48 AM

• Moving backward This is an awful case VB-envy.

  Posted by: fijimf on June 25, 2004 at 07:37 AM

• NIce I am running Linux and Konqueror. I went to the project page downloaded your demo and it worked. Very very nice. Should we use switch from C++ to C# ( Mono) or should we switch to Java? Looks like Java is the winner. How easy is it to switch to Java? I suppose I had better find out.

  Posted by: charlesedward on June 26, 2004 at 04:35 PM

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