Projects tagged ‘java’, ‘programming’, ‘swing’, and ‘ui’

Extensions and additions to the Java Swing toolkit. Successful SwingX components may be considered for inclusion in future versions of the JDK.

JGoodies Windows l&f and Plastic l&f family

The goal of this project is to provide a configurable and customizable production-quality Java look and feel library for Swing applications.

JGoodies Forms layout system

SwingLabs is a Sun Microsystems supported project that allows experimentation with extensions to existing Swing components, new Swing components, and other desktop related technologies such as Java2D, AWT, etc. It acts as a testbed for ideas related to client side technologies, and provides a path for inclusion to future versions of the JDK.

jSeamless is a UI abstraction layer for Java to allow developers to write code for any platform and any environment (Web, Desktop, Mobile, etc.) without having to know ahead of time the deployment platform or environment will.

The JGoodies Data Binding framework provides an elegant means to present object properties in a user interface. It reduces the code necessary for object presentation, stream-lines the development process for data binding, provides advanced features for automatic update notification and assists you in separating the domain and presentation layers.

A fast and powerful WYSIWYG GUI builder for Swing-based applications. Abeille is based on the JGoodies FormLayout.

Omnivide is a small app itself, written in Java. The idea behind the program is that several plugins will deliver any service you like to you. All in a single app. Omnivide itself will enable you to install/remove and enable/disable any plugin you ... [More] like, since it’s open source you can also write your own plugins. Just because we call them plugins doesn’t mean they aren’t full-blown apps. Our Twitter plugin is fully featured with your own timeline, the public timeline, a small overview of your followers and the ones you follow as well. The MSN plugin will feature several things you would expect from a MSN client. Like offline messages, personal messages, avatars and so on. The possibilities are endless. [Less]

SwingX-WS contains a set of JavaBeans for interacting with web services. Initial beans include support for several Yahoo and Google webservices such as searching news, video, images, and financial data, as well as a generic tile based mapping component.

The winlaf project aims to provide a common place for Swing developers to track inconsistencies in the Windows Look and Feel. One goal of the project is to provide a common source of utilities that work around consistency issues. The hope is that ... [More] eventually, many of the utilities provided here won't be necessary and the underlying issues will be fixed in Java itself. In the meantime, the winlaf project provides a way to make Java applications under the Windows Look & Feel appear as close to their native counterparts as possible without resorting to non-platform toolkits such as SWT. [Less]

Flying Saucer is a strict XHTML/XML renderer written in 100% Java (no native browser hooks), for embedding in a variety of applications (chat programs, mp3 players, web services clients, etc). It aims to provide strict and *full* webstandard ... [More] compliance for XHTML with CSS 2.1 styling. Input is well-formed XML and styling/layout is done with CSS. Output is PDF, Swing panel (for interactive use), image files, and SWT support is being developed. As of the current release, R7, the library should support almost all of CSS 2.; limitations on CSS support are listed in the project issue tracker. [Less]

UFace provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse. UFace provides a thin facade above the various widget implementations, then uses JFace Data ... [More] Binding to bind your model objects to the user interface widgets. The primary targets are implementation for GWT (including 3rd party widgets from e.g. gwt-ext, MyGWT), SWT/JFace and Swing but the API should flexible enough to allow other widget libraries to provide their own facades such as for things like QT-Jambi or JGoodies. [Less]

Icons in java are generally of a fixed size. In fact the documentation states that the Icon is "A small fixed size picture, typically used to decorate components." This library is designed to extend this definintion to essentially remove the 'fixed size' bit and as such increase the number of use-cases that the icon can be applied to.

Buoy is a library for creating user interfaces in Java programs. It is built on top of Swing, but provides completely new classes to represent UI components. Its advantages include a simpler API, a more powerful event handling mechanism, and much more.

SwingFX is a suite of effects, components, and more that are written in Java, typically using Java2D and Swing.

The Java Desktop Network Component (JDNC) project is about reducing the effort and expertise required to build rich, responsive Java desktop clients. JDNC leverages the power of J2SE and Swing, but provides a simplified programming model which ... [More] enables common user-interface functionality to be constructed more quickly, without requiring significant Swing or GUI programming skill. [Less]