Posted on Mar 12, 2007

Nimbus WebStart DEMO

Richard Bair has kindly put up a webstart demo of SwingSet running Nimbus on Swing Labs. Launch

8 Comments

  • Pierre-Yves Saumont says:

    Looks like if you switch the demo to another laf or theme, ther is no way to return to Nimbus. Not very easy to compare the lafs !

  • Jim says:

    Tree widget looks awful – is it being rendered properly?

  • Excellent work! Using a demo as predicator for completion is likely to be misleading, but I have to say that from playing with SwingSet it seems that Nimbus is almost done!

  • jasper says:

    Pierre: Sorry you can’t switch between L&Fs in SwingSet, I am just using the jar that comes with the JDK and have not edited it for Nimbus. Its just something I have been using it during development but thought that it might be interesting.

    Jim: There are still components that are not done, Nimbus is early stages at the moment, look at https://nimbus.dev.java.net/project.html for status.

  • anonymous says:

    All I get is

    com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Ressource konnte nicht geladen werden: http://javadesktop.org/swinglabs/demos/nimbus/lib/SwingSet2.jar
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)

    java.util.zip.ZipException: ZIP file must have at least one entry
    at java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream.finish(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.close(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream.close(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.net.HttpDownloadHelper.download(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.cache.Cache.downloadResourceToCache(Unknown Source)

  • jasper says:

    Think you exception is probably just a network error downloading the SwingSet jar file. Have you tried it again? Do other webstart applications work for you?

  • Alex says:

    Awesome! Thank you Nimbus for saving the java desktop!! I do lots of swing development and often time rely on creating faux-widgets that rely on Java2d to jazz things up a bit. Was maybe going to focus on web development and AJAX, until now… Looks like there is still fun to be had w/ swing :)

    and btw… I LOVE YOU LARA :D

  • Very good, I’m already using them in my Solaris. :)