Java desktop links of the week, June 14

A quieter week this week for some reason, but nonetheless some interesting links are to be had. Keep up the good work folks - it's great to read what's going on in the community.

Swing

• Kirill Grouchnikov has improved repainting in Trident 1.3. If you're using Trident, you should definitely look at this new API.
• In a separate post, Kirill talks about his impression of the Swing project.
• Lars Vogel has posted a tutorial about using JFreeChat inside an Eclipse RCP application.

JavaFX

• Johan Vos has announced a new project called RedFX, which is a framework that enables easy connection between JavaFX client-based code and Java Enterprise based backend code. You can read more about RedFX on the project website, but it has also been announced that RedFX will be merged into JFXtras.
• Rakesh Menon has blogged about how to rotate the text on a Chart axis to make it more readable.
• Exadel have put out a new release of the JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse, taking it up to 1.3.2.
• itssmee has posted two posts this week, titled 'Tutorial on how to use JavaFX 1.3 with the Twitter API' and 'how to sort a sequence of objects'.
• Jo Voordeckers has blogged about one way to possibly improve performance of Java applets in Firefox on the Mac.
• Now I'm not a Spring person, so I can't offer any editorial insight into this post titled 'wiring JavaFX objects with Spring'.

That's all folks! Catch you all again in a weeks time, and as always feel free to flick me an email, a tweet, or whatever else floats your boat.