Filthy Rich Clients

Animation and whizzy graphical effects can be totally gratuitous, but they can also be used to make applications more effective and users more productive.

This session examines fundamentals of timing and animation and shows techniques for implementing cool effects on Swing components. It also discusses recent advances in combining 2-D and 3-D effects in the Java™ Platform, Special Edition (Java SE) 6 (“Mustang”) release.

About Romain Guy

Romain Guy is a French student who worked for one year among the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has 7 years of experience in Java development, as an Open Source and freelance developer. He also worked as a freelance journalist for a French computing magazine, as a translator for O'Reilly and taught Java in a University. Today Romain focuses on UI design and humane interaction, especially in the Desktop Java field.

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