http://hansmuller.sys-con.com/ Latest News from Hans Muller en Copyright 2009 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:32:21 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss 360 http://hansmuller.sys-con.com/node/273987 Nearly a decade ago, when Java was still a fledgling portable software platform and the Tumbling Duke applet was considered cutting edge, the members of the newly minted Swing team, including yours truly, took in a packed JavaOne session given by Sun's JavaSoft president, Alan Baratz. He told the assembled multitude that our team would be delivering a new GUI toolkit in just 90 days. Although we'd been working on what was called a 'lightweight toolkit' for some time, he hadn't bothered to mention the new project deadline to us. Until that moment. If there'd been enough room, we would have all fallen off our chairs.<p><a href="http://hansmuller.sys-con.com/node/273987" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:15:00 EDT http://hansmuller.sys-con.com/node/273987 http://hansmuller.sys-con.com/node/273987#feedback