The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you create Ajax applications by writing Java code and generating JavaScript automatically. Robert Cooper shows how to get up and running with a GWT example.
Users don't read your documentation. So it's up to us, as software developers, to make our applications as easy and intuitive as possible. If you're writing a Java GUI, here's one easy way to help -- adding status bar hints.
This two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17 of Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, David Flanagan illustrates some of Java's sound capabilities. In the first section, he covers how to play simple audio clips with the java.applet.AudioClip c...