Listeners Dependency Injection

Listeners Dependency Injection
We've recently started to apply IoC ( Inversion of Control) ideas to our code base in several projects. While it turned out to be quite beneficial I won't advocate for the usage of any container (PicoContainer) or for the IoC idea itself. I will just describe the set of ideas about listeners, which came to my mind while introducing IoCto our code...

I think IoC will be used in more and more client technologies in the next year. It is on the list as a possible Desktop Java Live chapter post 1.0.

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Early Access Now Available
The NetBeans open source project is proud to announce the early access release of the NetBeans IDE 4.1 as the project delivers significant new development capabilities for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE) including Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) components and Web Services.

For downloads of this release go to:

• http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

NetBeans Quickstart Guide

• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/quickstart-j2ee-41.html

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Early Access 1 Annoucement:

• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/41/announce.html

Book Excerpt: SWT/JFace in Action
Learn how to build applications with features your users will love, using SWT and JFace, Eclipse's graphical libraries. Read about the SWT data structures that enable applications to process events in this excerpt from Chapter 4.

[ 14 Jan ][ News ]: NetBeans Profiler Beta (Milestone 4) Released
The Profiler is an add-on to NetBeans 4.1, 4.0 or 3.6, and adds a fully featured CPU, memory and threads profiling capabilities, tightly integrated into the IDE workflow.Visit http://profiler.netbeans.org to download or get more information.See important note below for JDK 5.0 users.Key featuresTight integration into the NetBeans IDE workflow.Low overhead profiling utilizing the JFluid technology.Task-based approach to simplified profiling.CPU performance profiling.Memory profiling &memory leak detection.Attaching to running (deployed) application.Thread profiling.New in Milestone 4Configurable filters for CPU instrumentation, allowing to further reduce the profiling overhead based on package names.Configurable filters for displaying results, which allows much easier evaluation of the profiling results by focusing on specific packages, classes or methods.Enhanced integration with NetBeans 4.0 and 4.1, providing direct support for J2SE and Freeform project types and easier integration with other project types via custom profiling Ant tasks.A number of bugfixes.More detailed information at http://profiler.netbeans.org/docs/help/whatsnew-m4.htmlJDK 5.0 usersThe profiler currently requires that the profiled application runs in a modified Hotspot JVM (included with the profiler module). As this JVM is based on a Hotspot 1.4.2 JVM, you cannot profile applications that use the new JDK 5.0 ("Tiger") features. Even if you do not use any of the new features, JDK 5.0 will by default create bytecodes that cannot run on earlier versions of the JVM. You will have to make sure the IDE compiler uses the "-source 1.4"option to be able to profile code compiled in the IDE.

Create Barcode ON THE FLY using JBarcodeBean

Create Barcode ON THE FLY using JBarcodeBean
JBarcodeBean is a JFC Swing-compatible JavaBeans component that lets you barcode-enable Java 2 enterprise applications...

See a nice reusable Swing component. We need more of these.

An Introduction to Embedded Linux Development, Part 2
Part 2 in a series on embedded development explains how to establish serial communication between an LBox and a workstation, compile tool chains and write and run a simple program.

Web Services Metadata
The "JSR181"effort is led by BEA systems and is presently in the public review stage of the JCP. There objective... A rapid and simple solution to define and develop web services.

Five Reasons to Move to the J2SE 5 Platform
Five important reasons to move to the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE platform) 5.0, supported by data and references to prove that the 5.0 release will reduce development and runtime costs.

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)