How to setup JAWS for Java Swing applications

Hello All,
I am having one swing application and need to test with JAWS.Could you please let me know the configuration steps.I tried with the following steps and it is not working properly.
1. Install JDK1.5.0_08
2. Install JAWS 7.0
3. Install SUN accessbridge-2_0_1
4. Copied access-bridge, jaccess-1_4 and accessibility.properties to jre\lib\ext
it is not identifying even buttons also.
Thanks & Regards,
Gana

Hello there,
Gana, Ana
I have the same problem
1. Install JDK1.5.0_08
2. Install JAWS 7.0
3. Install SUN accessbridge-2_0_1
4. Copied access-bridge, jaccess-1_4 and accessibility.properties to jre\lib\ext
and nothing

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I'm looking for recommendations on books for building swing applications from the ground up.
I'm not a strong GUI developer. 95% of my experience has been strictly on back end development in many other languages. What little GUI experience I have has been with C++ (years ago) and most recently with HTML.
I know what I want to develop, and even have the GUI design for my application drawn out. I just need a good book that can walk me through developing the interface in Java.
I already have several books on Java. But, I find them somewhat limiting because they don't help me build the app from the ground up.
Yes, I've tried the online book on the Sun site, "The Jfc Swing Tutorial: Guide to Constructing Gui's".
Please offer some recommendations and reasons on why you like the book.
Thanks.

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the first thing is understanding the LayoutManagers, that are available.
I will give you a short guideline where they are usefull:
FlowLayout - usefull for JLabel-JTextField combinations or several JButtons
BorderLayout - usefull for the structure of basic containers
CardLayout - usefull for every area of the screen, where you want to appear different panels
GridLayout - usefull for a group of same-sized components laid out in a grid
GridBagLayout - usefull for a group of components, that have different sizes, very flexible
JTabbedPane - a special container, that is similar to CardLayout but with visible tabs to switch panels
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You see, if you have an idea, what the LayoutManagers do, you know exactly which area needs what Layout - so you have a guideline, which LayoutManager to use in that panel.
To make an example:
You want 3 buttons centered at the bottom of a frame - this 3 buttoms should be of that size, that is needed by the button texts. So, what to do:
1. create a JPanel with FlowLayout
2. create the buttons and add it to that JPanel
3. create another JPanel with BorderLayout
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5. add this Panel to the ContentPane of the frame at BorderLayout.SOUTH
that is a simple panel in panel construct - placing 3 buttons centered at the bottom of the frame. You have to play with that different LayoutManagers a little bit - the way you stick one panel in another changes the look of the GUI - if you know, how it changes (by playing with the examples of the tutorial), you will have that "from the ground"-experience, you are looking for - believe me.
greetings Marsian

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Hi There,
I am new to this Certificate thing and running into issues! Would appreciate for all the help and please ignore for any stupid questions.
Here is my scenario.
1. I do have a client server application and client is a java swing application which connects to a Server application (Using Jetty 4.2.22 as embedded server)
2. Initially, it had a self signed certificate but goal is to support third party certificate (i.e import in the server and then show warning to the client during login)
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If I do a list from the server using Keystore, this is what it looks like
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rapid, Jan 6, 2009, trustedCertEntry,
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I am using like this
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Is not this API supposed to return all the server's certificate?
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Thanks,
CRB

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user13333704 wrote:
I have a Java swing application. What i am trying to do here is that when the user double-clicks the jar file to open it, if the Swing application is already open and is minimized, I need to maximize the open window and make it active. That's not hard to do, but your proposed solution is hard to do. The usual way to have only one instance of a Java application running is this:
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If you want the second instance to communicate with the first instance, that's easy because the first instance is listening on the port. So the second instance could connect to that port and send a message to it. In your case the first instance would respond to that message by maximizing its GUI.

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Hello,
I need to view and print PDF files from Java Swing Application.How do I do that?I appreciate your help.
Thank you
Sumana Somareddy

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