SubArtic

SubArtic
SubArctic is not yet another AWT widget set. It is a complete, full- functioned, industrial strength toolkit designed to be used for all your user interface needs. SubArctic is based on 10 years of toolkit research and is designed to offer the advanced interface techniques needed to go beyond static interfaces and simple collections of widgets.

A nice blast to the past of the pre Swing days...

[ 31 Jan ][ News ]: 2005 Readers' Choice Awards Voting Opens
Voting has opened for the Java Developers Journal 2005 Readers' Choice Awards and LinuxWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. The voting period started January 31st and will continue through July 31st.You may cast your vote for NetBeans in the following categories of the JDJ awards:Best Java Debugging Tool (Page 8) - NetBeans Best Java IDE Environment (Page 9) - NetBeans/Java Studio Enterprise[JDJ Readers' Choice Awards Voting]You may also cast your vote for NetBeans at LinuxWorld Magazine awards. NetBeans has been nominated in the following categories:Best Linux Developer Tool (Page 3) - NetBeans/Java Studio EnterpriseBest Linux Programming Environment (Page 10) - NetBeans/Java Studio Enterprise[LinuxWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards Voting]

Chat Transcript: New Language Features in J2SE 5.0
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0. includes the biggest set of language changes since the original release of the Java programming language. Read what two key members of the core Java team had to say about these features in this recent question and answer session.

JDBC RowSet Implementations Tutorial (PDF)
This tutorial explains how to use the standard JDBC RowSet implementations that are provided as part of J2SE 5.0. Get up to speed with each RowSet definition and benefit from improved scalability and robustness.

Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 4
Looking ahead to the next generation of MIDI music-making software, including Improv, Q-Midi and Csound.

Who wants programming when we have cartoons?: 100,000 Links Visited
About 3:00 CST today the link meter rolled over 100k visited. Not bad for 6 months or so in operation. My highly scientific research seems to reveal a trend of developers being interested in cartoons. Here are the top visited links out of the last 50k clicks:

1. Desktop Java Live (1274)
2. Spring-Rich: Gui Builders (722)
3. Totally GridBag Cartoon (653)
4. Sun Cartoon: Inside Jack 3 (587)
5. There are some real possibilities with the JGoodies stuff (545)
6. Creating Professionaly Looking .NET Applications (537)
7. Sun opens source Swing improvements - so STOP COMPLAINING!!! (484)
8. Swing Sightings #21 (462)
9. J2SE 5.0 and WinLAF do we feel like Windows yet? (461)
10. Professional Swing: Threading (436)
11. Jazz Up Your JTables with Reusable Classes (424)
12. BlogBridge (418)
13. Tonic Look &Feel (411)
14. TableLayout (385)
15. Java2D: Screenshots with Java (375)

[ 29 Oct ][ News ]: NetBeans IDE 4.1 Chat on SDN
The NetBeans IDE 4.1, which is now available as an Early Access Release, delivers significant new capabilities for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application development, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Technology components, and Web services. Find out more about what the NetBeans 4.1 IDE has to offer, and get questions answered in this chat with Senior Product Manager, Larry Baron, Technical Lead, Ludovic Champenois, and Engineering Manager, Petr Jiricka.Join the chat on November 16 at 11:00 A.M. PST/19:00 P.M. UTC.

Asking "Why" at Sun Laboratories: A Conversation with Director, Glenn
Sun Laboratories Director, Glenn Edens, discusses new research developments in the Java language and the gratifications and trials of running a research lab.

[ 22 Nov ][ News ]: NetBeans Governance Board Elections
It's time again to elect a new NetBeans Governance Board! All the information that you need to take part in the elections are contained and linked to from this email.For reference the current nominations and the actual voting results can be followed here.At this time we are asking for you to submit your nominations for the community members you wish to be considered for the NetBeans Governance Board. Send an e-mail with your nominations to the nbdiscuss@netbeans.org alias, or to info@netbeans.org e-mail (unlike nbdiscuss does not requireyou to subscribe first). nbdiscuss is the preferred channel as it is moreopen and the traffic is relatively low.The e-mail should contain a list of any number of names for the people you would like to be included in the list of nominees and included in the actual voting.The DEADLINE for nominations is Sunday, December 5, midnight in the last time zone.The nomination &voting schedule as follows:November 22 - December 05: Two-week nomination periodDecember 06 - December 19: Two-week official polling periodDecember 20, 2004 - New Board to be announced to communityMore information can be found at:NetBeans Election ProcessNetBeans GovernanceNetBeans Board Pages