Introduction

General "Managed Desktop Application" - facilitates the entire application lifecycle OS Guidelines-driven Application UI - Supports Java Cross Platform, Linux/Gnome, Mac OS X, Windows XP Model-View-Controller Architecture - data and view management GUI and Console Application Support - or extend to make your own application types Integration with JIDE Docking Framework, Action Framework, and other components Robust File-Handling - unprecedented file-based application support Polymorphic Resource Binding - bind resource bundles to objects automatically ObjectFormat - powerful MessageFormat replacement makes localization easier Command Line Parsing - capture, parse, convert and type check command line arguments Environment Variables - capture and access environment variables, single 1.4.2+ solution FileFormat API marshals data to/from application - default support for common formats Map file formats to data views Robust implementation of platform-dependant, application-specific file system checks 20+ file-related OS-specific standard dialogs such as save alerts and file replace Recent Documents menu with native path formatting Printing Integration - compatible integration of the Java Printing API Help Integration - snap-in integration of your existing help system Open files from the command line Comprehensive JavaDoc and Developer Guide, including migration guide Optional JSR-296 Compatibility API JDAF Wizard - code generation wizard gets you going quickly Desktop Application UI (OS Guidelines-Driven) Standard Windows - automatic windowing harness manages UI, emulates native document windowing behavior such as titling semantics, dirty status, and dialog interaction Supports SDI, MDI, TDI, Split, Docking, and mixed windowing styles Standard Icons - platform icons for Actions, including large icon support Standard Menus - Fully functional implementations of File, Edit, Window, and Help menus Standard Toolbars - Fully functional implementations of standard toolbars Standard Dialogs - Organizes dialogs and provides highest-fidelity and integration features Unique OS behavior such as automatic Mac OS X system integration, Windows XP MDI and arrange commands, Linux document age in dialogs, and much more... Classes Sampler DesktopApplication - root class serves as the controller and center of your application GUIApplication - OS Guidelines-driven GUI application with managed UI FileBasedApplication - direct support for document-centric applications ConsoleApplication - direct support for console applications (Yes, and MVC console application!) ApplicationLifecycleListener - listen to application lifecyle events DataModel/DataModelFactory/DataModelListener - create and manage data and data lifecycle DataView/DataViewFactory/DataViewListener - create and manage views and view lifecycle ApplicationFeature - create reusable, cross-cutting application features ApplicationAction - Create application-related Actions. Over 30 standard Actions installed and pre-wired MenubarCustomizer - Modify the standard menus and create your application-specific menus ToolBarCustomizer - Modify the standard toolbar and create your application-specific toolbars DialogRequest/DialogResponse/DialogListener - Request/response model for dialogs that facilitate native fidelity, dialog caching, and lifecycle Resources - read and convert resource values, bind resources to objects

What's new in this version

2.2.9.01 release