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| Seminar: |
Getting Started with Swing Components |
| Lecturer(s): |
John Zukowski |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Objectives: |
This seminar will provide a detailed look
at the Swing component set for existing Java programmers and describe the
Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Pluggable Look-and-Feel (PLAF) architectures
used by Swing. Also, transitioning tips are provided to developers who
are familiar with previous AWT 1.1. |
| Seminar Topics: |
- AWT History
- Swing Basics
- Two Models of Swing Event Handling
- Component Usage Analysis
- Model View Controller Overview
- Swing MVC Usage
- PLAF Capabilities
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
John Zukowski is a Software Mage with MageLang
Institute. He received a B.S. in computer science and mathematics from
Northeastern University and M.S. in computer science from Johns Hopkins
University. He is the author of Java AWT Reference from O'Reilly
& Associates, Borland's JBuilder: No experience Required and
Mastering
Java 1.2 from Sybex. In addition, John has written numerous Java technologies
articles and serves on the Senior Advisory Board of JavaWorld. John also
is the founder of the Mid-Atlantic Java User Group, the vice-chairman of
ACM's WebTech user group, and wrote the Focus on Java online guide
for The Mining Co. His next book will be: John Zukowski's Definitive
Guide to Swing for Java 2 from Apress. Ordering information will
be available at the seminar. |
| Location: |
MIT room 34-101, Edgerton Hall |
| Date: |
Saturday, 05/01/1999 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $75.00 Good until Wednesday, 04/21/1999
Regular Price: $85.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Yaz Shaghaghi & Peter Mager |
Directions: |
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| Books: |
| Title: | The Java Swing Book |
| Author(s): | Eckstein, Loy, and Wood |
| Publisher: | O’Reilly |
| List price: | $44.95 |
| PDS price: | $30.00 |
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