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.
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →After nine month beta period, we finally release JIDE Desktop Application Framework officially. Comparing to other JIDE component products, JDAF is a whole different story. It is a ground-breaking platform for developing truly cross-platform desktop applications in Java and Swing. There are many concepts in JDAF that are the first of its kind, such as [...]
Read more →I don’t like Vista as it is apparently slower than XP. However I discovered something nice about it. Today, I was doing a build on Vista and I double clicked on Explorer table header to auto-fit a column, I noticed it didn’t fully expanded as I knew there is a long file name in this [...]
Read more →One user asked us to add a method to IconsFactory to rotate an icon for any angle. Sounds like a simple thing to do but it took me a while to get it right. It is checked in to JIDE Common Layer as part of 2.2.2 release. See below for the complete source. Feel free to [...]
Read more →I got an interesting BOF session for this year JavaOne. The topic is “Workaround Swing Bugs”. If you are Swing developers like me, you must feel frustrated by bugs in Swing. However, let’s look at it from the bright side. There are several components or features in JIDE are introduced because of Swing bugs. For example, [...]
Read more →We just had 2.2.1 release and introduced several cool components. Here are the screenshots. You will know what those components for immediately after seeing them. (click to see full size image) GroupList  DualList  AggregateTable
Read more →Last Friday we released 2.2 version. This is a major release. In this release, we introduced a new product called JIDE Dashboard. This is again a customer contract but we kept the copyright within JIDE so that we can release it as a product. What is JIDE Dashboard exactly? If you want me to explain in [...]
Read more →I was reading Kirill Grouchnikov blog  while getting a customer request to implement such a feature. Kirill wrote a series of blogs on how to support validation overlay. He did a great job in explaining different solutions and comparing pros and cons. However he doesn’t seem bother to reach a conclusion. Maybe there isn’t one [...]
Read more →The open source project home page is alive now. You can see it and download the source code at https://jide-oss.dev.java.net/.
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