Java desktop links of the week, May 15

Howdy folks. I'm on vacation this week, so I'm just going to jump right into the links. I hope you enjoy them!

Swing

• Leonid Bogdanov emailed me about his 'bit-of-swing' project that contains an example of creating Skype-like text fields (button to clear field's content will appear when the field isn't empty) and a Cocoa based PDF component (works under MacOS X 10.6 Intel arch, but a native library can be compiled for MacOS X 10.5 too).
• Dirk Lemmerman has blogged about what he believes is the best Swing look and feel: BizLaf, which is a commercial library.
• Penkov Vladimir has released version 0.5 of swinghtmltemplate. The new version includes i18n support, placeholder resolution for attributes, and some new tags. There is also updated documentation.

JavaFX

• Geertjan Wielenga has blogged about integrating JavaFX 2.0 applications inside the NetBeans RCP.
• Michael Heinrichs, a member of the JavaFX team at Oracle, has blogged about JavaFX 2.0 properties. A good read if you are gearing up to explore JavaFX 2.0 beta when it hits soon.
• Stephen Chin and Kevin Nilson have put up their slide deck for 'Moving to the Client - JavaFX and HTML5'.

That's us for another week. Now.....back to my vacation! :-) Catch you in a week.