I would like to know if FileDialog is planned to be fixed in Java 7 to contain all the features of the native FileDialog. I couln't find anything in the release notes of Java 7. I've talked about this over and over but no one seems to answer. http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=233718 Can anyone from the AWT/Swing team give us a status please? Guys if you're interested in improving FileDialog vote for this bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6192906 ... more »

Java has powerful debugging facilities. Most of you that use debugging have seen that when stepping over a JRE class, no variables, members and values are available. This is because JRE distributions are (even beta's) compiled without including debug info. This is because of preserving memory and improving performance of default Java program execution. ... more »

MigLayout is a Layout Manager for Swing and SWT created to replace all current layout managers and introduces a very easy to understand yet powerful syntax that resembles CSS.... more »

Momentum for organizations to adopt Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) is steadily increasing as the platform's container support, developer tools, educational resources, and developer-community experience all improve. Get a high-level view of the new productivity features and API enhancements in Java EE 5 and work through a Web service example that demonstrates its simplified development models.... more »

I was so interested in Stephen Morris’s article on the Java Sound API that I decided to embark on a journey to record sound from a Java application. Stephen points to sample code and reports that using the Java Sound API is easy, but if you’re like me, you need to see a small sample before it really hits home. Therefore I went through several examples and from those built a simple example that explores the components of the Java Sound API and demonstrates how to use those components to record audio files.... more »

If you have ever wanted to display PDF files in your Java applications, Adobe provides a rich JavaBean that does just that. It provides all of the features that you’ll be used to when using Acrobat Reader, including zoom, print, select text, find text, and so forth. And being a JavaBean, you can simply create a container for it and add it to your application.... more »

In part 1 of his series on the history of programming, David Chisnall takes a look at some of the developments of the last few decades that have created the current crop of languages and discusses where they came from.... more »

Java Web application frameworks have been one of the important reasons for the success of enterprise Java. One wonders if Java EE would have been so successful without the Apache Struts framework. Although the underlying programming language is important, it's often the frameworks that bring the language into the limelight. If you have been following the discussion forums, you will have noticed how that's also the case with the Ruby language and the Ruby On Rails framework. Ruby has been around for more than a decade, yet only after the Ruby On Rails framework became a runaway hit did developers start noticing the Ruby language.... more »

The polls have closed and the results are in. That is, the results for the JCP Final Approval Ballot for JSR 268 (Java Smart Card I/O API). You can read the detailed results on the JCP web site. This happened in sync with the vote on the JDK 6 platform JSRs as explained in Danny's blog. I am also happy to report that this election cost some 2.8 billion USD less than a certain other election ;-)... more »

A few weeks ago I posted an entry that explained what superpackages are about. This is a continuation that deals with nested superpackages. If you have not read the first post, read it before continuing. As a reminder, the short version is: a superpackage is a language construct for information hiding [1].... more »