A Simple Framework for Desktop Applications
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An often repeated bit of wisdom about platform APIs is that they should make building simple things simple, and building difficult things possible. This has been insufficiently true about building large desktop Java applications for a long time. About a year and a half ago an we were talking over this state of affairs with an Australian developer who told us: I am more than a little disappointed that you don't have a strategy for building rich clients, when I believe you're just a screwdriver's turn away from having one. All the pieces of the puzzle are there, ready to be assembled and productized. He was right: the time has come to put the screws to the rich client platform.

This talk will introduce a small set of classes that are intended to serve as the core for typical Swing applications. This set of classes provides a set of common services like lifecyle, defaults, global state, actions, and workers (threads). By using a standard Swing application core, most developers will find that they can concentrate on what makes their application unique, rather than on the plumbing and scaffolding that's common to most applications.

This session will provide a detailed look at the elements of the Application Framework terms of their APIs and sample usage. The session will conclude with a demo of building a complete Desktop Application in NetBeans.

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