JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework

This session introduces the JSR 296 that is about a small and simple framwork for Swing applications that shall define infrastructure common to most desktop applications. We motivate the framework, describe its scope and compare it to rich client platforms and their larger feature sets. We show and discuss its topics: life-cycle, resources, resource conversion, resource injection, actions, background tasks, blocking, and UI state persistency. Source code examples elaborate on the details how to use and benefit from the framework.

Although there's already a public framework implementation, his JSR has not reached the early draft spec state. We describe he state and activity around the JSR and the public draft code base.

Level: Beginner

Track: Core

Prerequisite knowledge: The very Swing basics

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Karsten Lentzsch  JGoodies As architect and designer of Java tools, demos and several professional Swing libraries, Karsten Lentzsch is considered a leading expert in Java user interface technology and pluggable look and feel. He brings a wealth of experience in designing usable and elegant Java application to JGoodies. For over 15 years Karsten has been involved in object technologies and user interface design as a consultant, trainer, architect and expert developer. Since adopting Java programming early in 1997 he has designed and developed stand-alone applications, application frameworks, Java libraries and enhancements to the Java look. He publishes articles about Java UI topics and talks at major Java conferences.