Some thoughts on SWT

Why I choose SWT against Swing
Swing is a well known, already tested option while SWT stands there as a sparkling, brand new toolkit, which has been the building blocks of Eclipse. I always knew that it would be a hard choice.

A nice, brief comparison of SWT and Swing. Well, I guess I gotta check it out some time.

Java Terminology

JavaServer Pages, JDBC, RMI, JDK--Java technology names and acronyms can be confusing for newcomers and experienced developers. This article defines the most common Java terminology in easy-to-scan, alphabetical order, and provides links for more information and downloads. This list is not a complete list of Sun's products for the Java platform, and is subject to change and updates..

Java Security

Don't wait until runtime to discover that there's a syntax error in java.policy. Use a simple utility to check java.policy at build time to avoid unexpected runtime failures.

rating comment: This article gives a brief overview of the Java security implementation. But it's simply too brief to be really good.

Java Extension Mechanism

Java has a huge collection of classes, but many projects need to call upon code outside of core Java, which leads to the question of where to store and how to load this code. Thomas Künneth shows how Java's Extension Mechanism allows you to make new code available to all Java applications.

rating comment: Very interesting article, similar to the "ClassLoaders and Jar Dependencies" article I wrote about last week.

Test Driven Development

Test-driven development turns traditional software development processes around by promoting writing tests before writing the functional code. Find out what test-driven development is all about and how to effectively use it within a project.

rating comment: Interesting article. It provides a brief, but useful overview of test-driven development!

Bugfix

Heute hab ich endlich mal Zeit gefunden, den Bug in der Suchfunktion zu fixen. Bis heute war es nicht möglich, nach Auswahl einer Kategorie, eine Suchanfrage zu starten. Die Suchanfrage führte zu einer inkorrekten URL. Ich hab die URL der Suchanfrage geändert, und jetzt ist auch eine Suche aus Kategorien möglich.

Jakarta Commons Lang

Harshad Oak provides an overview of the Jakarta Commons Lang project and shows how the components in this project can simplify and accelerate development.

rating comment: Nice introduction to Jakarta Common's Lang project. The article provides examples of manipulating Strings, handling time and dates, implementing the toString() and compareTo() method.