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Welcome to JavaDesktop, a gathering place for members of the Java™ platform's graphical user interface (GUI) community. Here you'll find news, discussions, technical articles, and open source projects that use the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE™) APIs to produce applications with rich client interfaces. (If you're looking for information on the Sun Java Desktop System, you can find it at sun.com.)

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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.
What is the meaning of life?
posted by kabutz on Dec 22, 2011
A few weeks ago I updated my age to be a factor of 2 and 5.  It is the perfect age to reflect what life is all about.  Some men don a...
VisualLangLab 7: New Features, Expanded Tutorials
posted by sanjay_dasgupta on Dec 14, 2011
A new tutorial that exercises VisualLangLab using all the examples and techniques in Chapter-3, A Quick Tour for the Impatient,...
Poll Result: Why Desktop Development Receives So Little Publicity Today
posted by editor on Dec 11, 2011
I wasn't pleased (though I also wasn't surprised) to see that quite a lot of people think the reason Java desktop development receives so little...
JavaFX Balls 3.0
posted by opinali on Nov 25, 2011
In my last blog I’ve introduced JavaFX 2.0 beta, describing an initial port of JavaFX Balls, also in beta stage at that time. Now I finally...
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Surprising results of autoboxing
There are a number of surprising consequences of auto-boxing. Some are more widely known than...
Securing a BPEL in WebSphere Integration Developer 7 difference over WebSphere Integration 6
Today we look at how to add a role-based security to secure a BPEL. In WebSphere Integration...
Curve fitting and styling AreaChart
I was experimenting today with extending AreaChart to do curve fitting for some example code I was...
Arquillian with NetBeans, GlassFish embedded, JPA and a MySQL Datasource - Part II
This is a followup post to the one I did yesterday. Even if it was intended to be a more complex...
Extending PathBuilder
I came across the interesting blog “JavaFx and HTML5 differences” by Chika Okereke....
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