Starting a native application from your Java code is as simple as the following command: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("notepad.exe"); Of course, this adds platform dependency to your code, and if you want your application to be portable it’s a good practice to avoid using the exec() method. But if it is necessary to initiate a native application for any reason, [...]

Logging is an important and pretty useful mechanism for every application. It can help developers to debug and improve their code or test it’s functionality. Apache has made a great work in this field with it’s tool named log4j. You can find more information about it here. In this post I will provide a quick guide [...]

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on JavaServer Faces, making an effort to learn the framework and ultimately use it to create a web application. Currently I’m still in the learning process and the more I’m involved with JSF, the more I’m becoming a fan of it. The last challenge I’ve faced is [...]

After spending hours and hours playing with HTML, CSS and image editors, I’ve managed to give JavaWords a unique, nice and clear layout. The process was not easy at all for me, as my knowledge on the field is limited. Well, at least it was before making the decision to create my own theme. The good [...]

Here is the concept: We want to extend the JLabel swing component and make it perform a simple fade effect each time it’s value changes. Using this kind of label can be helpful to build a user interface for an application having the need to notify the user for important state changes. The following applet demonstrates [...]

Ok, after spending a lot of time while designing and tweaking the blog’s theme, I think I’ve come up to an acceptable result. Finally I can enable search engine bots to crawl the site and make JavaWords available to everyone. Unfortunately(for the readers), I will be on vacation the next days and obviously there will not [...]