Swirrel is a little framework (in alpha state) which allows to annotate AWT or Swing Components instead of writing listeners. Swirrel reads the annotations and attaches the aproriate listeners automatically. All you have to do is to provide the name of the methods which should be called by the Swirrel listener.
Swirrel is a double edged sword, it can make things much easier, but you can shoot yourself in the foot (hey, a sword you can shoot with!). Please consider carefully if Swirrel is right for you and your project, especially if it contains deeply nested, complex, dynamic and/or time critical GUIs. Note that using Swirrel requires more testing, as things that caused compile time errors before cause runtime errors now. That said I must say Swirrel runs much smoother than I expected.
Overview
jPod Renderer is is the long awaited rendering implementation for AWT and SWT.
Based on the successful jPod library, this one adds a platform abstraction which allows for
* pluggable PDF image conversion from and to AWT and SWT
* pluggable PDF font handling
* platform independent PDF rendering with adapterf for AWT and SWT
This library is commercial strength and used in products like
* CABAReT Stage (free for personal use)
* Sign Live!
* PDF/A Live!
The JCCKit is a small (< 100Kb) library and a very flexible framework for creating scientific charts and plots.
JCCKit is written for the JDK™ 1.1.8 platform (except of a Graphics2D renderer). Thus, it is suitable for scientific Applets and for PDA's running a PersonalJava™ implementation.
JCCKit is an offspring of my lecture The Art of Developing Scientific Java Applets held at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in the winter semester 2002/03. See lecture 12 and 13 which explains the basic architecture of JCCKit.
Purpose and Features
The main purpose is to provide a flexible kit for writing applets and application with the need for visualizing scientific data. If you are looking for a lean scientific chart and plot library without all the unwanted bells and whistles of the heavy competitors try JCCKit.
The key features of JCCKit are:
* small (< 100Kb jar file)
* highly configurable due to a sophisticated configuration concept
* extensible (1/3 of all classes are interfaces or abstract classes.)
* automatic updating if data changes
* easy programming of dynamic charts and plots
* automatic rescaling if canvas size changes
* out-of-the-box applet for presenting static data on a web page without needing knowledge of the Java™ programming language.
* automatically generates a legend
* supports
o logarithmic axes
o non-numerical tic labels
o different line styles, colors, and thicknesses
o different symbols
o different fonts, font styles, colors, and text orientations
o vertical and horizontal error bars
o vertical, horizontal, and stacked bar charts
* supported devices
o AWT Graphics context
o AWT Graphics2D context (needs Java™ 2 platform)
o Off-Screen image creation (need J2SE 1.4 or higher) (see section 2.5 of the User Guide)
o SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)