Nimbus, Java Expression Blend ?
September 10th, 2007 | by Tonny Kohar |Daniel Spiewak Javalobby post regarding Jasper Pott recent blog nimbus almost done. Jasper Pott blog quote:
Finally we are almost done with Nimbus and I am very pleased with the way it looks. There are many small details that need to be pollished …
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Nimbus was drawn graphicaly in a new tool we have been building. Almost none of it was hand coded. We have built this tool that is like a mini Photoshop or Illustrator that lets you graphicaly draw all the 2D vector graphics for each of the states of the components.
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As you may already knew, Nimbus is the new look and feel for Java Swing created by Sun Microsystem. It will be for inclusion in Java 7, and also possible inclusion in the upcoming Consumer JRE due before Java 7.
However, the things that intriguing me is that he mentioned about the new GUI designer tool aka mini Photoshop or Illustrator. So the following questions are keep spinning in my head:
- What is this new tool ?
- What is the technology behind it ?
- Does it use any Java FX behind it or just the painter things ?
- Is this somekind of Microsoft Expression Blend or the Adobe Flash offering, but java only ?
- Replacement for Netbeans Matisse or co-existing complement tools ?
- and many more … ?
Looking forward to see and test this new GUI tools.
Well done Nimbus Teams
# update Romain Guy Blogs “The Secret Behind Nimbus” have additional info regarding this new tool
- It is based on painter
- It generates Java 2D code
- It is a Netbeans module
- more …
One Response to “Nimbus, Java Expression Blend ?”
By Werkplace on May 17, 2008 | Reply
I bet it is based on Processing since it is open source and all the hard work has already been done.