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The Tech Topics Archive

This section contains articles on a myriad of topics related to Swing. When articles in TSCīs main Tech Topics section start getting a little old or a little threadbare, we move them to this section -- the Tech Topics Archive -- and here they remain in perpetuity.

ARCHIVED 'TECH TOPICS' ARTICLES
Early-Access JavaHelp Online: How to download and use the new Swing-based JavaHelp API.
Understanding Containers: Why Swing has a JRootPane class, what that class does, and other topics.
Mixing Heavy and Light Components: You can do it; hereīs how.
Threads and Swing: How to use Swing in a thread-safe way, and wy Swing components arenīt required to support access from multiple threads.
Using a Swing Worker Thread: This article shows how to use an enhanced version of the SwingWorker class. By doing that, you can implement a background thread that you can use to perform time-consuming operations without affecting the performance of your program's GUI.
The JTable Class in JFC 1.1: In JFC 1.1, the Swing team came up with a lean, mean JTable class that makes it easy to create, manage, and optimize tables using Swing. This article explains and demonstrates how that JTable class was designed.
The JTable Class Is Data-Aware: How the Swing team built data-awareness into the JTable class.
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 Truth about Serialization: How the Swing team cleared the hurdles it encountered in devising a serialization strategy for Swing.
The Swing File Chooser: How File Chooser updates introduced in Release 1.0.2 became a permanent part of Swing.
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