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 »

XMLContentHandler provides a structured approach to building a data structure from XML content using SAX parser. Generally most of the data structures can be built in a top down approach where a parent gets created first and then children add themselves to the parent. This utility class facilitates building data structures in such a top down approach. ... more »

Netbeans 6 has been released, with the primary focuses being on editor enhancements and language support. Netbeans is getting a lot of good reviews in the Ruby community, for example, with excellent Rails and JRuby support. The editor, they say, is much more responsive than in previous releases.... more »

JBoss is pleased to announce a community beta release of JBoss JSFUnit. JSFUnit is an open source community dedicated to testing JSF applications, based on Cactus and JUnit. It provides three different testing tools: an in-container testing framework, a dramework for JSF static analysis testing, and a JSFTimer for performance testing of the JSF lifecycle.... more »

A Bangalore start-up named InstaColl, co-founded, chaired and underwritten by Sabeer Bhatia, who did HotMail, which Microsoft bought in 1997 for a reported $400 million, has launched into the Office business sorta like Google, Zoho, Adobe et al with some hybrid online/offline widgetry called Live Documents. Live Documents, which unfortunately isn't live, is a suite of online productivity apps that its creators claim is the functional equivalent of Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007 matching features such as Excel's macros and table styles and PowerPoint's live preview.... more »

Today, I'm going to explain how to save some steps by downloading the latest build of the OpenJFX Compiler rather than building it on your machine. If you decided not to build the compiler because it looked like a hassle, then relax - this is a lot easier. Just follow the instructions on the PlanetJFX page entitled How to Download the Latest Compiler Build Instead of Building It.... more »

JetBrains has just announced the final availability of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting features to Groovy and Grails and provides unsurpassed Groovy support in the Java IDE.... more »

Lost in the hype around Web 2.0 and AJAX is the fact that your visually attractive Web 2.0 application actually needs to do something useful. In this session we'll illustrate an AJAX application generated from XML-based models. Given that standards-based starting point, we'll illustrate how to generate XForms applications that handle data and workflows. Even more important, we'll change the business process definition and the data structures underlying the application, then use XSLT to regenerate the interface. This ensures that the beautiful AJAX interface stays synchronized with the model of the application.... 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 »

Numerous text editors these days are capable of so called "tab completion". That is, where you type three characters, hit the Tab key and wham, 200 lines appear. Obviously this can be a considerable time saver at times. ... more »