Vol. 10 Iss: 10 Read back Issues

How To Build a Toolbar From a Menu Actually I would like to do something more, for instance, providing a toolbar for my application. First, I add three buttons with the same cut, copy, and paste icons (no text for them, according to the Look-and-Feel Design Guideli... Nov. 10, 2005  Reads: 27,972  Replies: 2

i-Technology Viewpoint: "Pessimism Leads to Weakness, Optimism to Power" Sun and Google are going to be teaming up to take on Microsoft in its holiest of holy markets, the desktop. Could such an alliance have been dreamed of just one year ago? The answer, of course, is 'Yes!' 'Game-changing' is what a ... Oct. 11, 2005  Reads: 55,182  Replies: 1

Java Developer's Journal: "@ See Javadoc" My dear wife has just started to learn to use Java in her work and asks me a lot of questions as she begins her journey in this wonderful language. To almost all her questions my answer is the same: 'See Javadoc.' Oct. 15, 2005  Reads: 16,717  Replies: 2

Java J2EE Hibernate Extreme Makeover: Architecture Edition In the past few years there has been a proliferation of frameworks that allow for lighter, faster, and loosely coupled Java projects. These frameworks not only let you decouple your Java project from the application server for u... Oct. 20, 2005  Reads: 57,318  Replies: 1

Deriving the Visitor Pattern: A Review and Discussion Like most other self-respecting developers I had also read the GoF book 'Design Patterns,' including the section on the visitor pattern. However, when a colleague came over to me with a question, I could not initially justify the ... Oct. 23, 2005  Reads: 21,354  Replies: 2

Benefiting From Open Source Development In a market that is defined by today's tight IT budgets, saving on software licenses can mean the difference between financial failure and success for a software development project. While our corporate clients use commercial-grad... Oct. 26, 2005  Reads: 18,585

How to Provide Dynamic Security Permissions For various reasons, an application may install a security manager. Usually it does so to guard against malicious third-party code either installed or dynamically downloaded at runtime. If the application uses RMI APIs, it's even re... Oct. 29, 2005  Reads: 24,062

Java Desktop: The Usability Paradox The world's first office computer, known as LEO, was created in the 1950s by Lyons, the British teashop giant. Its aim was to replace the thousands of clerks who did the billing, invoicing, and stocktaking, and also tracked the su... Nov. 7, 2005  Reads: 20,407  Replies: 3

ArrayListModel with Swing's JList and JComboBox This article presents a data model based on a Collection implementation that can be used with Swing components JList and JComboBox. It also discusses a method to use these same concepts in constructing the user interface of an application. Nov. 7, 2005  Reads: 26,834  Replies: 4

Web Frameworks and IDE in Java/J2EE In the first two articles of this series (see http: //java.sys-con.com/read/1 08260.htm and http://java .sys-con.com/read/124664. htm), I started thinking aloud about automating my gas station using various Java-related technologies. Th... Oct. 27, 2005  Reads: 20,602  Replies: 6