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The great new look and feel for Swing applications, Nimbus, is according Jasper’s blog (the ‘father’ of Nimbus) done. I haven’t tried the new version yet, but I am really looking forward to it.

Here a picture from the new look (screenshot is borrowed from Japser ) Thank’s Jasper and Nimbus team

Today the preview release of JavaFX was announced. It would be nice to say that many people/developers waited for this release, but the truth is nobody (really) cares. The sad thing is that they are right because the preview release is just a joke. I followed the JavaFX road since F3 times and I expected a lot from it. I did some tutorials and I saw real potential in the technology. However, the slow slow development, the bad marketing work, and the buggy presentations constantly disappointed me. I talked with some Sun engineers at the JavaDeus about these problems and they convinced that the preview release will be worth waiting, but I am more than disappointed with this release. After trying this release, I am pretty sure that JavaFX fails on the desktop (maybe the mobile release can change this). Here is why:

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These are two very interesting articles about applets, their history and predictions about their future.

• Are applets making a comeback? by Jeff Friesen.
  Jeff asked some Gurus (Roman Guy, Chet Haase, Jim Weaver and others) about their opinion. I found it very interesting how Roman and Chet, authors of Filthy Rich Clients, responded to the questions. For those who don’t know, Chet just left Sun a couple of weeks ago and now works for Adobe (AIR, Flex).
• The new applet experience by Jeff Friesen.
  In this article Jeff takes a tour into Applets, JavaFX, and Java 6 Update n. Very nice to read and he points out some rough edges of using Java for RIA’s.