David Qiao's Blog

Kirill just posted an interview with me on his blog on Swing, RIA and JavaFX. It is a series of interviews with Amy Fowler, Mikael Grev and myself. I guess Kirill probably will have more interviews after the first three. Interesting discussions.

This is something Java/Swing community has been crying for years. We even received numerous requests to make such a component (and we declined all requests). That’s a lightweighted Swing component for html viewing (or editing). JDIC gave us some hope several years ago even though it is JNI based but that’s project went nowhere. There was no indication that Sun is working on it, until the first day of JavaOne when a JWebPane component was announced. Surprise! The demo looked pretty good. It is just there is no demo for public to play with at the moment. I am certainly eager to give it a try when it is avaialble in June or July.

For those whose are interested in it, the author just posted a blog on it.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/2008/05/introducing_jwe.html

It is JavaOne time again this week. Even though I talked with many of you in emails or over the phone but never met in person. If you will be in San Francisco for this year JavaOne, let’s see if we can meet! I will have a BOF-5133 on Thursday night from 8:30 to 9:20 PM at Hall E 135. The topic for the BOF “Workaround Swing Bugs”, which is coincidentally something we are doing all the time. So please come and join me during that time. If you want to schedule another time to meet, you can email me at david at jidesoft.com and suggest a time. I will check email and will be in Moscone Center most of the time during the day. Enjoy and Have Fun at JavaOne!