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In the Spotlight - Scott Delap

Author of Desktop Java Live

Scott Delap is President of Rich Client Solutions, Inc., a software consulting firm focusing on technologies such as Swing, Eclipse RCP, GWT, Flex, and Open Laszlo. He is actively involved in the Java community, speaking at events such as NFJS, QCon and JavaOne. Scott is also the Java Editor of InfoQ.com and runs ClientJava.com, a portal focused on desktop Java development.
























Presentations by Scott Delap

Accelerating Desktop Application Development with Groovy

The dynamic nature an syntax of Groovy can make a number of development activities easier. Desktop applications are no exception. This session will look explicitly at how Groovy applies to the task of writing desktop applications in Swing and SWT.

5 Minutes Forms with JGoodies Binding and Validation

Application developers often spend hours on the simple tasks of laying out a form, wiring components to objects, and validating the data entered. This is time that could be much better spend on the business problems your application is trying to solve. This session will show how to leverage open source libraries to take the work out of the form building process.

Ajax, Flash, and Java - Choosing The Right Rich Client Technology for Your Next Project

Today's users are beginning to demand richer and richer application experiences. Plain html pages simply don't cut it anymore. Applications like Google Maps (Ajax) and Yahoo Maps (Flash) show how the UI experience can be pushed to the next level. As an IT manager, how do you decide which route to take however? Should you use Ajax because it is the new "it" technology. Is Flash a viable option with its 95%+ browser availability? Perhaps Java deployed through web start is really the best choice in contrast to what the buzz would lead you to believe. This presentation takes a look at these three core rich client technologies from both deployment/user experience and ease of development perspectives.

Java GUI Deployment 101

This session will introduce attendees to the various options and problems that exist with deployment of a Java UI application written in Swing or SWT. Topics covered will include obfuscation of classes in preparation of deployment, open source installers, and Java Webstart.

Writing Testable User Interfaces

Modern application development is embracing the idea of testable application development. However, the UI is often intentionally ignored in respect to this subject as "too hard" to test. This does not have to be the case however. This session will explore how developers can structure their code using modern widget toolkits to keep the UI's they require while gaining the benefits of testability. Among the topics covered will be separation of UI and business logic concerns, popular Swing testing tools, and the creation of integration tests.

An Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit

The Google Web Toolkit has achieve a large amount of interest since its release in May of 2006. This session shows you what all the noise is about. See how GWT compares to legacy web apps as well as desktop application development.

Developing Enterprise Business Applications in Eclipse RCP

This tutorial emerges out of the combined experience the presentor gained while working on a large Eclipse RCP/J2EE enterprise application (2.3 million lines of code in the RCP application). It will address the gap between the standard functionality of Eclipse RCP and what is needed for the creation of polished highly usable business applications.

Creating Polished Swing Applications

Too often, Swing applications are slow, ugly, and hard-to-maintain. It turns out that it doesn't have to be this way. Swing can be used to create highly-responsive, beautiful applications that are very maintainable. If this isn't consistent with your own experience, don't feel bad; its not very obvious how to make Swing sing.


SWT Fundamentals

The Eclipse project's SWT GUI toolkit provides one of the only viable alternatives to Swing for creating so-called rich client applications in Java. Whereas Swing paints its own widgets and has distinguished itself with a complex (and often obtuse) API, SWT relies on the host operating system for widget rendering and sports a simple, clean API. If your goal is to create a Java application that "looks" like a normal Windows application (or OS X, or Linux), SWT will revolutionize your world. In this session, I introduce SWT from the ground up.

Introducing the Eclipse Rich Client Platform

Rich client application development using Java can be intimidating giving the vast flexibility in application design and structure. It also can be frustrating to create the large number of support services (persistence, menus, event and job frameworks) that a large scale rich client applications needs. The Eclipse Rich Client Platform is one project attempting to solve these issues by providing a core infrastructure that not only provides the day to day services a rich client application developer needs, but also providing a suggested path to guide you down the road of designing your application. This presentation introduces both the Eclipse RCP and the tools provided by the Eclipse IDE that assist developers in writing RCP apps.

An Introduction to Adobe Flex and OpenLaszlo

In 2006 Rich Internet Applications went from being the exception to the norm. Battling it out on this front are technologies such as Ajax, Flex and OpenLaszlo. This session takes a look at the two main alternatives to pure Ajax, Flex and OpenLaszlo, comparing them not only to each other but to Ajax and Swing/SWT Java applications.

Books by Scott Delap

Desktop Java Live
by Scott Delap

Desktop Java Live
  • Desktop Java Live is written for Java developers that have some experience with desktop development and now want to take their skills to the next level. The first seven chapters of the book cover core open source libraries in areas such as threading, layout, data binding, and validation, which can drastically speed up the development of desktop applications written in Swing. Each chapter features detailed code examples and images to walk the reader through the API being covered. Chapter 8 features a detailed discussion of how the MVC pattern and its variations (Presentation Model and Model View Presenter) can be used to write cleaner more testable applications. The chapter then details the construction of an RSS reader using these concepts along with the API's covered in earlier chapters.

    Chapters
    • Chapter 1: Reintroducing the Desktop Application
    • Chapter 2: Layout Managers
    • Chapter 3: GUI Builders
    • Chapter 4: Look and Feel
    • Chapter 5: Threading
    • Chapter 6: Data Binding
    • Chapter 7: Validation
    • Chapter 8: Patterns in Desktop Applications (Creating the RSS Reader)


    What Readers Are Saying:
    Gregg Bolinger (Java Ranch Reviewer – 10 out of 10 Horseshoes)
    “Recently I was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of Desktop Java Live by Scott Delap (who also runs clientjava.com). Desktop Java Live isn't your typical 'how-to' java book full of API references and examples of how to create JFrame's, JComboBoxes, and custom widgets. DJL is a pioneering book distributed by a pioneering publisher (SourceBeat) that teaches you how to write desktop applications using best practices as well as how to use a plethora of open source libraries to enhance and ease the development of your applications...”

    Romain Guy:
    “...a cool book about Java desktop applications. I had the chance to read a few chapters before this release and I can assure you this is all good. The book is refreshing as it does not give you another full coverage of boring Swing components. Instead, it shows you how to use some great libraries (JGoodies Bindings for instance), it helps you understand Swing threading model, how to use layouts, etc.”
  • Available At: http://www.sourcebeat.com