Compiere as Development Framework The GUI framework market needs to shake out in the next 12 months. We have a lot of duplicate effort going on across the board. Hopefully the market will separate two or three projects from the pack so they can innovate quicker.
Better NetBeans 4.0 GC Tuning The Swinger has a couple entries about GC in Netbeans 4.0. The same theories should apply to other apps that can't take a hit at GC time.
Solving Swing's MVC Deficiencies Warren's blog had a link to this from March. I have so much information to find and link to from the pre ClientJava.com days. Anyway, interesting piece on Swing MVC architecture issues.
PaNaSeaM aids rapid Java GUI application development by providing components
and a Framework that together give the Netbeans IDE an Access like environment.
Next the server module lets Java talk to Microsoft Jet databases in the same way
as Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code by using normal DAO methods.
Server connectivity and licence control is provided by the use of Java and Perl. The essential DAO functionality is provided on a Microsoft Windows platform. Licence administration support is currently provided on Linux or Windows based systems. Migration of Access applications is aided by the PaNaSeaM translation assistant.
Wrap Look and Feel Interesting approach to add anti aliasing to look and feels by wrapping them generically.
Defrosting Java GUI's Is something like Mac OS X's "Interface Builder" what Java developers are really searching for?