user- "My main concern for Java in the last year has been the lack of progress on the desktop technologies front"
- What Java FX Script is for Swing, Glimmer is for SWT
- Will include the Nimbus LaF
- "it would be fairly easy to write a Transformer to convert this in my custom EXSWT-Format used to build SWT/JFace-GUIs"
- "The marriage of SWT with Java Web Start provides powerful tools to deploy great-looking client-side Java applications."
- AB5k: a cross platform widget system for your desktop.
- A set of standard graphic objects built into the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) from Eclipse, providing both new widget controls and an animation framework ...A set of standard graphic objects built into the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) from Eclipse, providing both new widget controls and an animation framework that share a common programming model with the existing controls in SWT.
- The JSR-296 Swing Application Framework prototype implementation is a small set of Java classes that simplify building desktop applications.
- The Derby database embedded in Eclipse allows you to create an SQL database on the client side with no security issues or network problems
- The Napkin Look & Feel is a pluggable Java look and feel that looks like it was scrawled on a napkin. You can use it to make provisional work actually look...The Napkin Look & Feel is a pluggable Java look and feel that looks like it was scrawled on a napkin. You can use it to make provisional work actually look provisional, or just for fun.
- BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
- A quick tour of the OLPC "Sugar" user interface
- "F3 attempts to demonstrate that we're not exploiting the full capabilities of the Java platform for GUI development and that together with supporting tool..."F3 attempts to demonstrate that we're not exploiting the full capabilities of the Java platform for GUI development and that together with supporting tools like F3, the Java platform is highly competitive with or superior to competing GUI development."
- "Eclipse V3.2 enhances cheat sheet technology to make them easier to build and more versatile for users."
- This is great! Without a single line of Java code...
- Cool Swing stuff...
