JavaOne 2007 : Java Desktop Widgets - Glossitope
posted Wednesday, 16 May 2007
 | There was lots of Swing news at JavaOne. The emergence of Matisse.next was demoed at NetBeans day, the Swing Application Framework, and much more that will be covered shortly. However, today the topic is Glossitope. What it is it ? If you missed Joshua Marinacci's blog entry on the topic - it is here. He has posted some nice slides in Quicktime and in | PDF to their BoF. The slides are very well done and humorous. However, Glossitope is very cool and it is worth looking at because it offers a truly dynamic widget set for the desktop (any desktop). Glossitope lets you run mini programs on your computer desktop. They do lots of cool things and hide away until you need them. Things like show the time, check the weather, view RSS feeds, or check your World of Warcraft status. Existing widgets set like those from Apple and Microsoft are proprietary and those from Yahoo and Google are limited by the underlying technology. Glossitope is interesting because it offers a set of very powerful widgets that run on Solaris, Windows, MacOS, Linux and other operating systems that run a modern JVM. Check it out at http://glossitope.org. I'm going to try this out on my new Solaris (Nevada 63 desktop). |
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