Carl Antaki’s blog

I have released Boom 1.0. Bloom is a desktop app that let you upload your photos easily and efficiently to Facebook. Bloom is multiplatform and has been tested on Java 5 and 6 on Windows XP and on Java 6 on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10.
You can run it using Java Web Start:

These switches apply to Java 5 and up.

Sun announced yesterday that they are building JavaFX their next generation scripting technology which is their answer to Adobe’s Apollo and Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. The beauty of JavaFX is that it’s going to run on Desktops, cell phones, Blue Ray players and other devices.

JavaFX is going to bring Java2D and Swing to the masses.

Swing Custom traversal policy is so easy to use check it out:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html

What should be done is to write a class that extends FocusTraversalPolicy and then provide a collection of Components so that we won’t have to implement the class over and over in an application.