Georges Saab is a Software Engineer at JavaSoft, and is one of the original architects of the Swing! toolkit, a part of the JFC (Java Foundation Classes). Georges holds a degree in Philosophy from Duke University, which qualifies him for pondering the metaphysical connundrums of the Java experience. He has spent the last 10 years designing cross-platform GUI toolkits for VM-based programming languages.
The Swing toolkit is a part of the Java 2 Standard Edition which makes it simple to create attractive GUIs which are consistent cross-platform. It also has a flexible design which gives developers control over parts of the GUI which were previously off-limits. In this session Georges will discuss several advanced uses of the Swing APIs, as well as present information on some experimental work which the Swing team has been doing on archiving GUIs.