The “Break it Down” Blog

I saw this a few days ago and it’s the type of thing you think “Ok cool, I’ll try and remember that” but you forget about later when you need it, so I wanted to blog it.

The JIDE team (those professional Swing/Component development guys) open sourced what they are calling the “JIDE Common Layer“. For the Swing-Labs Component users out there, this is great news because it’s more components to add to your arsenal.

The components included in the JIDE Common Layer are as follows:

With a Web Start demo of it available here:

NOTE: The Web Start demo includes demos of a lot of JIDE components, it’s just the first set of components that have been open sourced. So don’t get too excited when you see the JIDE docking framework in there, that hasn’t been open sourced yet.