Frank Nimphius starts blogging about the interesting improvements we're making for developers building Swing applications with Oracle ADF in our upcoming 10.1.3 major release. He'll provide more details in future blog postings.
I saw a demo of the JGoodies LayoutManager integration in the JDeveloper Swing visual editor this week in one of our feature team meetings, and it's really shaping up to simplify the way that users will be able to layout their Swing forms using a more easy-to-understand grid of rows and columns.
Like many of our feature-team meetings that involve members of the JDeveloper team who are distributed around the globe, we used Oracle Collaboration Suite's conferencing feature to watch the demo given by the developer working on the feature in progress. There were folks from India, California, Italy, and Germany on the call. Sure beats having to fly somewhere to keep up on the latest progress of the next major release!
Frank didn't specifically mention it, but we're also working on improving our support across the product in 10.1.3 for what we call "UI First" development. This involves simplifying the use case of first prototyping a skeleton panel/page with "dummy" UI controls to get the basic look like you want it -- which potentially might have been done by someone more artistically inclined in your team -- and then binding those dummy controls to the appropriate data exposed by your data controls in a second phase.
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