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[Coding the Architecture] Just a short note to plug a handful of sessions that Kevin and I are presenting at the upcoming Software Architect 2008 conference, 3rd-5th June, London. 1. Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect The first is a re-run of our ...
Building Native-Looking , Great-Feeling Applications with JFC
The first session I went to yesterday (Wednesday) was all about how to build native looking Swing apps. The session was pretty good and the presenters threw in several tips and tricks about how to get Swing apps to look good. One thing that I was surprised about is that they don't recommend you subclass the Swing components. Instead, they promote the use of UI delegates. This isn't something that I've tried before because whenever I subclass a Swing component, I'm always adding behaviour rather than changing the look and feel. I guess I'm going to have to look into this some more.