Now that many Linux distributions are packaging updated versions of GCJ , Eclipse and Java-GNOME , never has been so easy to develop GNOME applications using Java. I am using Fedora Core 4 and for this little tutorial you must have installed: eclipse-jdt libgtk-java...

Java, Linux, GNOME, Development, Open Source

A good programmer using Swing knows that long operations must be executed outside the Swing event dispatch thread, and there are many utlities to do that like the SwingWorker class. One of the problems that arises when another thread in opened to do processing is that sometimes is needed to...

Java, Development

I readed at System.out blog the best description of how EJB 3.0 is taking shape, from who and from where it is copying ideas. I have used a few persistence frameworks, from in house developed, from designed for another non Java Language (Sparky from VisualBanker - Smalltalk) and the infamous...

Java, Development

The rechargable battery of my wireless mouse has been exhausted today, so I am currently browsing using only the keyboard and that has been a few painful hours. HTML has mechanisms to generate access keys and there are methods to help to the user to skip directly to the content , but is rare to...

Development

I entered the world of Object-oriented programming with Smalltalk , no C++, no Java. Still it is the programming language that I like the most, even more than Java; please note that I am talking about the language and not about the surrounding environment, like the class libraries or the...

Development