A new skinnable look and feel (Synth), printing support for |JTable| components, the ability to add components directly to a frame, these are a few of the new features in Swing for J2SE 5.0.
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Learn more in this transcript of a recent chat held with two key members of the Swing engineering team: Scott Violet and Shannon Hickey.
MDR-EdO: Welcome to today's Java Live chat on what's new in Swing. J2SE 5.0 adds a number of new JFC/Swing features such as a skinnable look and feel (Synth) and printing support for JTable components. In today's chat, you'll have a chance to ask questions about these new features and get answers from two key members of the Swing engineering team: Scott Violet and Shannon Hickey. So let's begin by outlining what, in fact, is new in Swing. Scott and Shannon, can you give us a rundown of the significant new features?
Scott Violet: Welcome all! Swing has a number of exciting new features for 5.0. The big ticket item is no longer do you have to do frame.getContentPane().add(), you can now do: frame.add(). Seriously though, 5.0 includes two new look and feels. Synth, which is a skinnable look and feel, and Ocean which is a new an improved theme for metal. Beyond that we made table printing extremely easy! And of course we improved performance, reduced per instance size, as well as a number of minor API additions. I should also add that we're now in the midst of planning for the next big release: 6.0. It's looking like this will be a very exciting release as well, with a number of long sought after features.
KevinM: What about any improvements in Threading?
Scott Violet: For 5.0 we did not do any threading changes. For 6.0 there are a number of projects underway, including the ability to trigger events on the event dispatch thread to be processed. We also really, REALLY want to get SwingWorker into core. That'll be the generified version we talked about at this year's JavaOne.
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