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The Swing Connection The Archive

A Repository of Articles from Past Issues

WHAT IS SWING?
Introducing Swing: An older, longer version of "Getting Started with Swing," along with some extra details.
The Swing Tool Set: Lists and describes all the components in The Swing Set and shows how they work with each other. Also provides valuable information about the packages in the Swing API.
Understanding Swing Architecture: A technical overview of Swing's modified MVC structure and other facets of Swing component architecture.
Installing a UI Delegate: A fold-out chart that shows how to install and uninstall a UI delegate.
THE PLAF PAPERS
Creating the Java PL&F: The Project Metal Report: Recounts how the Swing team developed the Java look and feel.
Tweaking the Java L&F:How feedback from developers helped the Swing team fine-tune the final Java look and feel implementation.
The Multiplexing Look and Feel: Reveals an easy way to extend the capabilities of a user interface created in Swing without having to create a new look and feel.
SWING AND THE WEB
Swinging Applets: Old version of "Make Your Applets Swing!".
Introducing Java Plug-in: Old version of "Plugging into Swing"
FRIENDS
Create MDI Programs with Swing:  Using AWT components to build MDI applications.
Tracking Progress with Swing: How to create and implement progress dialogs using the Swing component set.
Banking on Swing: How a German manufacturer of financial software migrated from AWT to Swing -- and why.
TECH TOPICS
Early-Access JavaHelp Online: An article published when the JavaHelpTM API became available as an early-access release.
Understanding Borders: How you can create many different kinds of plain or decorative borders using Swing, such as beveled borders for buttons, labeled borders for panels, and borders that are just simple lines.

The JTable Class in JFC 1.1: How the JTable class introduced in JFC 1.1 made it easy to create, manage, and optimize tables.
Understanding Containers: Why Swing has a JRootPane class, what that class does, and other topics.
Mixing Heavy and Light Components: How to do it.
The JTable Class Is Data-Aware: How the Swing team built data-awareness into the JTable class.
Threads and Swing: How to use Swing in a thread-safe way, and why Swing components arenīt required to support access from multiple threads.
Using a Swing Worker Thread: How to implement a background thread that you can use to perform time-consuming operations without affecting the performance of your program's GUI.
The Truth about Serialization: Swing's serialization strategy.
The Swing File Chooser: Understanding the Swing file chooser.
COMMENTARIES
A Message to Our Swing Developers: Win32 and licensing.
Why There are 2 Swing Packages: Packaging problems.
THE MORGUE
Sun Ships Swing 1.0: Announcing the release of  Swing 1.0.
JavaOne Swings: The JavaOne conference in San Francisco in 1998.
R.I.P.: Target Manager, Spring Layout: Two Swing tolls bite the dust.
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