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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	[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 ...	Aug 4, 2008 8:44:11 AM
2	[Swing] Application Wide Hotkeys I'm working on a Swing application and I need the ability to have application wide hotkeys. Basically that means no matter what I am currently doing in my app specific keystrokes always do the same thing. For example I am mimicing IDEA's CTRL+N ...	Aug 1, 2008 2:48:00 PM
3	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