Every project that aspires to glory has some kind of regular build process that takes the code out of the code repositories (CVS and the like), compiles it and, hopefully, goes as far as possible towards creating a deliverable entity like an installation kit. In the rest of the post I will assume an installation [...]
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Dealing with exceptions is hard. For a while now in the Java world there are two camps. One considers the initial design of the Java exceptions system a sensible one, a feature that contributed greatly to Java’s success. A new camp has also formed in Java world and this new camp considers the original design [...]
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One more nice touch in the Java 6 offensive to the desktop is giving Java applications the ability to add icons to the system tray in a pretty consistent way across platforms. Of course differences exist and they will show up to some degree in the code but at least now the framework exists and [...]
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