Bizcal is a component library for calendar widgets written in java using swing. It has components for day view, week view, month view, group view, etc.
Spin is a transparent threading solution for non-freezing Swing applications.
Swing is the standard component architecture for developing Java desktop applications. Its exhaustive collection of widgets is the foundation for easy development of rich graphical user interfaces (GUI).
Alas every non trivial GUI sooner or later encounters the problem of "freeze". This annoying behaviour is experienced by users every time the application performs extensive calculations or blocks for network or disk I/O.
We will explain the reason for this problem and explore different techniques to prevent Swing GUIs from "freezing". We will present our project named Spin which offers a - to our knowledge - revolutionary new approach. It offers a solution for transparent thread handling with minimal impact on your application code.
jDiffChaser is a GUI comparison tool that automates difference detection
between same screens of different versions. You can easily record scenarios
(optionally define zones of the screens to ignore during comparisons) and play suites
of them on two different versions of the same Java Swing application: differences are
then listed in a web page report.
The Event Bus is a single-process publish/subscribe event routing library, with Swing extensions. The EventBus is fully-functional, with very good API documentation and test coverage (80+%). It has been deployed in many production environments, including financial, engineering and scientific applications.
The Event Bus is easy to use and yet very powerful. It requires no setup and the API is small and clear. The EventBus solves many problems, and promotes loose coupling, particularly with Swing applications.
xswingx can help you...
* Add prompts to any text component.
* Add child components to any text field. (Called buddies. Wonder why? Read the FAQ.)
* Add a search field to your UI (and let it look and behave like native - or not).
August 27, 2008: DJ Native Swing 0.9.6 is released. The library is now split into a framework library and its SWT-based implementation. This allows to re-use the Native Swing integration framework for other types of native components.
Abbot helps you test your Java UI. It comprises Abbot, which lets you programmatically drive UI components, and Costello (built on Abbot) which allows you to easily launch, explore and control an application. The framework may be used with both scripts and compiled code.
Zeus a Java Swing Components Library. Provides usefull swing components for easier GUI development. Some of the components are: JConsole,JMessage,JSplash,SingleAppInstance,WindowManager,AutoResizeTableColumns,TableSorter,TypeSafe API and much more.
MyDoggy is a Java docking framework to be used in cross-platform Swing applications. MyDoggy is an IntelliJ Idea like docking framework for managing secondary windows within the main window. MyDoggy allows to move,resize or extract those secondary windows. Also, MyDoggy provides support for content management of the main window. Like Eclipse, MyDoggy supports the concept of "prospective" using mydoggy groups.
The Spring Framework's applicability in the context of Swing seems to be underhighlighted, at least when one looks around on the web. What does Spring have to offer in this context? Rather than a highly theoretical discussion, let's look at a complete, compilable example, step by step, and draw our conclusions from there.
Abeille Forms Designer is a GUI builder for Java applications. Developers and designers can create complex, professional forms in minutes. Designers can drag and drop components onto a WYSIWYG editor. Full support for undo/redo and copy/paste is provided. Components can be easily customized by adding images or modifying their properties. Advanced fill effects are supported such as textures and gradients.
Abeille has intuitive layout rules and is based on the JGoodies FormLayout system (https://forms.dev.java.net). The FormLayout is a popular, open source layout manager for Java and is used by thousands of developers worldwide. Abeille comes with all the required software.
Abeille stores forms in binary files which can be loaded by your application and added to any Swing container. While the designer is licensed under the LGPL, the forms runtime has a BSD license. This allows forms created by the designer to be used freely in commercial applications.
* WYSIWYG Editor
* 3rd Party Java Bean Support
* Swing Based
* Borders, Gradients, Textures, Images, and Shadow Effects
* Undo/Redo
* Intuitive Layout Rules (based on JGoodies Form Layout)
* Open source runtime (BSD License)
* Code Generation
* Supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Swing has lot of components built-in but still some are missing. This project provides the developer community with these missing components, components inspired (copied?!) from modern user interfaces.
This project is an implementation of CSS stylesheets for Java GUI components. For instance, the following stylesheet:
JButton.link {
border: null;
foreground: blue;
text-decoration: underline;
}
JButton.link:armed {
foreground: red;
}
will change all buttons with the "link" style class to look like HTML links rather than standard buttons.
Sanaware Java Docking is a library for managing the windows of a Java Swing application.
With the Sanaware Java Docking Framework you can:
* Organize the windows of your application in panels, split panes, tabs, lines, grids and floating windows.
* Reorganize the windows of your application by drag and drop.
* Minimize and maximize your windows.
* Save your workspace.
* Organize the toolbars, buttons, and actions of your application.
UISpec4J is an Open Source functional and/or unit testing library for Swing-based Java applications, built on top of the JUnit test harness.
If you are writing a Swing application, you will appreciate UISpec4J above all for its simplicity: UISpec4J's APIs are designed to hide as much as possible the complexity of Swing, resulting in easy to write and easy to read test scripts. This is especially true when comparing UISpec4J tests with those produced using Swing or low-level, event-based testing libraries.
SwingLabs is an Open Source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual appeal. It is an umbrella project for various Open Source initiatives sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community. Successful code and concepts may be migrated to future versions of the Java™ platform.
JuiPiter provides a mechanism to separate Swing tasks from long running non-UI tasks. The core of the JuiPiter mechanism is the Window Logic Decoupler. The decoupler, in addition to memory management and externalized strings, adds a single local Thread (non-Swing) per window that acts as the delegate. The single thread aspect solves the multi-Thread concurrency management that the developer must handle is using other options, i.e., SwingWorkerThread, FoxTrot, Spin.
All Swing and delegate tasks communicate through a message passing, publish and subscribe mechanism. Each task publishes messages through the decoupler. The use of queues allows the tasks to communicate without specific synchronization. There is one set of queues and a delegate thread for each Window, though a way to pass messages between Windows has been implemented. Along with this simple messaging infrastructure, JuiPiter also includes a number of Swing component helper classes and an extensive sample application, similar to the SwingSet, that demonstrates all the aspects of the JuiPiter framework. JuiPiter is designed in layers so that some developers may use just the messaging foundation while others will also use the component helpers and utility classes.