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Swing is not dead !

Swing is not dead !. Technical Thursdays January , 20 11 Piotr Dziewonski. Agenda. Introduction AWT and Java 2D Swing Application Framework Swing enhancements: Substance Flamingo Oxbow MiGLayout SwingLabs Aerith Swing in future. Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT).

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Swing is not dead !

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  1. Swing is not dead! Technical Thursdays January, 2011 Piotr Dziewonski

  2. Agenda Introduction AWT and Java 2D Swing Application Framework Swing enhancements: • Substance • Flamingo • Oxbow • MiGLayout • SwingLabs • Aerith Swing in future

  3. Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) • The first graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit that shippedwith Java (JRE 1.0) • AWT was the only core library for user interface programming in Java • AWT provides this capabilityby calling upon the native libraries on the user’s system to create anddisplaythese GUI components • Events that occur in the native window system arereceived by the AWT implementation and are then forwarded to Java applicationsas AWT events • AWT lives on and can be used now exactly as it was in the beginning

  4. Java 2D Java 2D, introduced in the JDK 1.2 release, is the graphics library of Java.Whereas AWT included basic drawing APIs in JDK 1.0, Java 2D goes much furtherand covers a broad set of operations, including basic and advanced drawingoperations, image manipulation, text, and printing. Java 2D handles Swing’srendering operations. So, for example, when a Swing button wants to look like aSwing button, it makes calls into Java 2D to draw the background, the border,and the text for that button.

  5. Swing – Introduction Swing is the primary Java GUI widget toolkit released in July 1997. It is part of Sun Microsystems' Java Foundation Classes (JFC) — an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs. Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). Swing provides a native look and feel that emulates the look and feel of several platforms, and also supports a pluggable look and feel that allows applications to have a look and feel unrelated to the underlying platform. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)

  6. Swing – Overview • Swing, like Java 2D, was also introduced in JDK 1.2. • Swing is a lightweight toolkit,which means that the Swing components you see in your application, such as buttons,checkboxes, and scrollbars, do not correspond to native components as theydo in AWT. • Swing’s componentsare drawn using Java 2D, and they can have theirdrawing customized, whichleads to applications that look and behave in much more interesting ways. • The application may call Swing methodsdirectly, but the functionality of these methods is handled through combinationsof AWT and Java 2D calls underneath

  7. Swing – Overview Java Application Swing Java 2D AWT Java Runtime Environment

  8. Swing – Competitors • JavaFX • Adobe Flex • Adobe Air • Microsoft Silverlight • HTML/CSS/JavaScript • …

  9. Swing Application Framework The Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) is a Java specification for providing a simple application framework for Swing applications. It will define infrastructure common to most desktop applications, making Swing applications easier to create. The JSR 296 specification will define the basic structure of a Swing application. It will define a Framework as a small set of extensible classes that define infrastructure common to most desktop applications: • Management of application life-cycle, startup and shutdown, • Support for loading localized resources, • Persistent session state, • Support for loosely coupling Actions to their presentation Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Application_Framework http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/swingframework.html

  10. But… It was originally expected that this implementation would be the means for integrating JSR 296 into the upcoming Java SE 7 (Dolphin) version of the Java programming language, and the project was scheduled to be included in milestone 5 of the JDK7 development. However, in August 2009, it was announced that the project would not be included due to an inability to reconcile design flaws and achieve consensus among the JSR 296 team before the milestone 5 deadline. Source: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/archive/2009/08/19/saf-and-jdk7

  11. BSAF – overview The Better Swing Application Framework is a fork of the original Swing Application Framework reference implementation of JSR 296. Since August 2009, the original Swing Application Framework project has been on hold, and therefore this fork was created to carry on the work until the original project resumes. The last public release of the original SAF project was version 1.03. The BSAF project currently aims at producing a new release, version 1.9, with the primary goals of improving stability, keeping backward compatibility with SAF 1.03, fixing bugs, updating documentation, and creating more unit tests and examples. Project name: Better Swing Application Framework Author: Alexander Potochkin Web page: http://kenai.com/projects/bsaf/pages/Home License: LGPL Description: A fork of the Swing Application Framework.

  12. Substance – overview The goal of this project is to provide a rock solid, fast and extensible library for creating visually appealing and consistent Swing applications. Project name: substance Author: KirillGrouchnikov Web page: https://substance.dev.java.net/ License: BSD License Description: Substance Java look & feel. Saysomethingabouttrident…

  13. Substance – in Action…

  14. Substance – in Action…

  15. Flamingo – overview The goal of this project is to provide a Swing implementation of the Office 2007 ribbon container and related components. The components have consistent visuals under the existing core and third-party look-and-feels, respect the DPI settings of the user desktop and follow the core Swing guidelines in the external APIs and the internal implementation details. Ribbon component is described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc872782.aspx Project name: flamingo Author: KirillGrouchnikov Web page: https://flamingo.dev.java.net/ License: BSD License Description: Flamingo Swing component suite.

  16. Flamingo – inspiration

  17. Flamingo – in Action…

  18. Flamingo – the small things More information on Kirill’s blog: http://www.pushing-pixels.org

  19. Oxbow – overview The goals are: • create trivial Task Dialog API as described at Microsoft page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx • provide Look and Feel independent UI • conform as much as possible tolocal OS standards when using system LAF Project name: oxbow Author: EugeneRyzhikov Web page: http://code.google.com/p/oxbow/ License: New BSD License Description: A collection of projects for Swing UI enhancements.

  20. Oxbow – inspiration

  21. Oxbow – in Action…

  22. MiGLayout – overview MiG Layout Philosophy: • Fast, Small and Memory Efficient • Simple to Use + High End = Large Range • GUI Toolkit Independent – Easy to Port • Resolution Independence – Automatically • Simple to Read – Close Constraint Proximity Project name: MiGLayout Author: Mikael Grev Web page: http://www.miglayout.com/ License: BSD License Description: A collection of projects for Swing UI enhancements.

  23. MiGLayout – in Action…

  24. SwingLabs – overview Available components include: • Sorting, filtering, highlighting for tables, trees, and lists • Find/search • Auto-completion • Login/authentication framework • TreeTable component • Collapsible panel component • Date picker component • Tip-of-the-Day component Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwingLabs Project name: SwingLabs Author: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Web page: http://www.swinglabs.org/ License: LGPL Description: Sun open source project proposing extensions to the Java Swing GUI toolkit.

  25. SwingLabs – overview A Successful project components are eventually incorporated into the core Swing toolkit for future Java versions, although API compatibility is not guaranteed. Examples of these are: • the GroupLayout manager in Java SE 6 • incorporation of the SystemTray in Java SE 6 • the new Desktop class in Java SE 6, which allows to launch easily associated applications registered on the native desktop, as for example : launching the user-default browser, launching the user-default mail client, launching a registered application to open, edit or print a specified file. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwingLabs

  26. SwingLabs – inspiration

  27. SwingLabs – in Action…

  28. Aerith – overview It's a roadtrip slideshow builder that combines Google Maps, Flickr, and Yahoo Geocode to let you make your own slideshow of photos you took on your trip. Once you are doing setting up the slideshow you can share the trip with your friends as an applet. Aerith really shows off the power of Swing, Java2D, and JOGL when you combine it with webservices and applets. With Desktop Java you can do things you couldn't ever do in AJAX. And most importantly, it looks great! Project name: Aerith Author: Richard Bair, Romain Guy, and Joshua Marinacci Web page: https://aerith.dev.java.net/ License: BSD License Description: Aerith is a Swing Mashup.

  29. Resources Books: • Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications– Chet Haase, Romain Guy • The Definitive Guide to Java Swing (3rd Edition) – John Zukowski Web: • Jonathan Giles – www.jonathangiles.net • Kirill Grouchnikov – www.pushing-pixels.org Other: • Check „TechnicalThursdays” directory on the storage

  30. Q & A

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