The success of rapid application development (RAD) systems like Borland's Delphi and Microsoft's Visual Basic have brought a great deal of attention to the concept of software components. Java has now entered the ring with its own component software specification, JavaBeans. This article -- the first of many JavaBeans columns -- gives a high-level description of JavaBeans, explains why it's useful to developers, and introduces basic JavaBeans concepts. (2,800 words)
Like many Eclipse.org projects, the goal of the Visual Editor project is to build a tool for building tools -- in this case, tools for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The Visual Editor Project has released a reference implementation. The Visual Editor release 0.5 is a GUI builder for AWT/Swing applications, a long-awaited Eclipse feature. Release 1.0, slated for delivery in mid-2004, includes support for SWT. Get an overview of Visual Editor and the technology behind it, along with a short demonstration of Visual Editor 0.5's features for building AWT/Swing applications and a preview of the SWT support in Visual Editor 1.0.
Welcome to JavaDesktop, a new gathering place for members of the Java graphical user interface (GUI) community. Here you'll find news, discussions, technical articles, and open source projects that use the J2SE platform to produce applications with rich...
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