Advanced Swing: Architecture and Frameworks

Are you spending more time plumbing your Swing applications than solving business problems? Has your Swing application grown out of control? This session is for you.

In the first part of the presentation, I analyze the architectural problems that plague many Swing applications and present architectures that overcome these problems. These architectures are presented in terms of principles along with a reference implementation. You can therefore either adapt the principles to meet the needs of your existing applications, or incorporate the specific ideas of the reference implementation into your new projects. Fortunately, there are some existing frameworks that have done some of the architectural work already. I present some of these frameworks in the rest of the presentation.

About Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several Java-related books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, an experienced CTO and Java Architect, and is presently a consultant specializing in Java Swing and Ajax development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he’s been professionally coding in Java. Ben has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide at venues including JavaOne, The Ajax Experience, JavaPolis, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium series; he was the top-rated speaker at JavaOne 2006.

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