Swing Hacks

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Credits

Contributors

Swing is big enough that surely everyone who works with it takes away

some new ideas for how to hack it. Our contributors helped flesh this book

out with hacks that blew us away and that we’re sure you’ll like, too.

• Romain Guy is a French student currently working as an intern with the

Swing Team at Sun Microsystems in California. He discovered Java in

1998 and contributed to the Open Source/Free Software community

with Jext, a Java source code editor he developed over five years. He is

also a freelance journalist for Login:, a French computing magazine.

Never short for ideas, he also wrote for Javalobby, the Java developer’s

journal, and a couple of French magazines. Romain seeks for other

experiences whenever he can: he works as a translator for O’Reilly

France, he taught Java in a French university, he fulfilled several mis-

sions as a freelance Java developer, and he even worked as a video game

programmer. Today, Romain focuses on UI design and humane interac-

tion. He shares his work on his weblog: www.jroller.com/page/gfx.

• Jonathan Simon is a comprehensive client-side expert, designing and

developing mission-critical financial trading clients for Wall Street

investment banks. This requires a fluid combination of business and

task analysis and interaction design with the intricacies of Java rich-

client development to create content rich, ergonomic trading applica- ...