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"Best Tool for the Job" is a Myth
Browsing around the Q&A on JavaRanch.com I see a lot of the same questions when it comes to web frameworks. To paraphrase: "Which web framework should I choose and why?" I and others often respond with the typical canned answer. This answer comes in ...
Some Reasons Flex Looks Appealing
Update It has been brought to my attention that I have repeated some information contained on the Flex homepage in my ramblings here. I just wanted to point out that is wasn't intentional and I was not trying to plagiarize. But the fact that my ...
Wicket In Action: Chapter 1 Review
I got a surprise in my inbox the other day. Manning released the final ebook version of Wicket In Action. I was surprised because it had been a while since I got an update from Manning that I honestly forgot I had purchased the book. Normally I read a ...
SpringRCP IntelliJ SimpleApp
Yesterday I was going through this SpringRCP Tutorial. It is looking quite promising. My only real problem is that the only plugin available is for Netbeans and I use IntelliJ's IDEA for all my development. So I set out to see what it would take to get ...
[Swing] Implementing Goto Class and Find resource
Last week I wrote an entry on implementing application wide hotkeys or global hotkeys. I mentioned writing a new article on how I implemented IntelliJ's Goto Class though I think calling it the same as Eclipse's Open Resource is a better name for my ...

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Re: "Best Tool for the Job" is a Myth
One of the things I do as a professional, is realizing solutions that were the best available at one point no longer are. At that point, you must be able to admit this, and choose differently. But when using a full-stack framework, this is generally not ...
Re: Some Reasons Flex Looks Appealing
Hey Gregg, I don't know anything about Flex but do you mean that we can build a front end Flex application that talks to server side Java code (Servlet, JSP and whatever)? What is your favourite list for Flex & ActionScript? Thanks.
Re: [Swing] Application Wide Hotkeys
One solution is to simply ensure that each action has a corresponding JMenuItem in one of your menus. Assign accelerators to the menu items, and you get global keyboard handling for free from Swing's built-in menu infrastructure.

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1	SwingBuilder: Integrating Groovy and Java Today's SwingBuilder excursion revolves around the fact that I am developing a Swing application where Groovy isn't being used at all. What I realized was that while I can't say for certain if SwingBuilder really makes complex forms easier to write I do ...	Apr 9, 2008 4:55:00 PM
2	Groovy SwingBuilder Model Binding I've been messing around with Groovy's SwingBuilder in my spare time. I did quite a bit of google-ing trying to figure out how to bind widget values to model properties. The example on the Groovy website wasn't very real world though it did get me pointed ...	Apr 8, 2008 11:41:00 AM