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(live blogging on its way) It's 8:49, first general session is running, John Gage is on the stand introducing the conference. Everybody stands up and Gage asks people here for the first time to seat down (I'm seated now), people with 2 JavaOne to seat down, with 3 years, ...

Almost packed; a short night and a taxi will be waiting at the door for the airport, and sixteen hours later I'll land in San Francisco, coming from south of France - what a long trip to see java powered robots :) and hundreds (thousands?) of developers fantasizing about their ...

Some have asked for it so here it goes, the source code for paintrhelpr as been posted, see http://ph.l2fprod.com/#source.

There is a little gem in Swinglabs. If you know the Swinglabs project you may already know what I'm talking about: the Painter API. There have been some articles on painters, showing us mere mortals how it is easy to create those glossy gradients. Last month, Joshua ...

One year ago I referred to a SynthBuilder application I was working on (building_synth_styles). More an experiment playing with Synth than a real application. Since then some have shown interest in the app but I did not work on it any further... But SynthBuilder is not dead, like ...

Few notes I'm taking while migrating one of my project from a classic ant build to Maven 2. Filtering Source Code In my ant build, ant preprocesses the source code - meaning it copies it to a temporary folder and while copying its replaces tokens such as "@VERSION@", "@YEAR@" in ...

Following one comment on my previous post, I decided to get a look at WebWork. I've got up and running faster than with Struts with the help of the Eclipsework plug-in. This plug-in ties together WebWork, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh. SiteMesh is another component found at OpenSymphony, ...

Although 2006 is not yet there, it is coming real fast. Every year I write down some resolutions I try to achieve - but never fully do... Among other things, next year, I'd like to look deeper at some enterprise tools, frameworks and so on. I got the basics ...

I moved the source code of my Wrap Look And Feel (a workaround to globally enable anti-aliasing) at java.net. Version is 0.2 and includes bug fixes related to JSpinner, ComboBox and other "composed" components (components made by assembling other components - JSpinner is made of a textfield and buttons as ...

Just came across Romain Guy's post about Synth Studio at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/2005/09/synth_studio.html. Few months ago I started looking at Synth and to understand how it was working I started a "SynthBuilder". Although I did not really work on it since then, I just captured a Flash demo showing how ...