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Swing in a better world: Static fields vs AppContext
posted by alexfromsun on Feb 9, 2012
The problems that are related to the application context might be invisible from the outside of the Swing core libraries, but it has been a big deal...
Night Dreams about NetBeans 7.1, etc.; Day Work Configuring CentOS Linux for JavaFX 2.1
posted by editor on Feb 4, 2012
Last night I dreamed seemingly all night about NetBeans 7.1, the JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview, the JDK 6 and JDK 7 installations on my CentOS Linux...
SwingX 1.6.3 Released
posted by kschaefe on Feb 2, 2012
I am very pleased to announce the release of SwingX 1.6.3.  While the release notes contain many fixes, I wanted to take a minute to highlight...
Persist document in Cassandra
posted by otaviojava on Feb 1, 2012
Killing the myths about java
posted by otaviojava on Jan 17, 2012
From 1995, when was launched the first Java's version, to 2012 the Java evolute obtained seven versions, many improvements and fixes bugs.
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