The BrainStreamer way - java tag

BrainStreamer 2.0 Current status

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:25:00 GMT

Work on BrainStreamer 2.0 is really going well.
I'm using the development version of BrainStreamer 2.0 full time now and I think
it is a real improvement compared to the 1.2 version.

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One of the many reasons why I develop in Java

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:12:00 GMT

From www.itweek.co.uk :

New research from software security specialist Fortify reveals that bugs are far less common in Java compared with commercial C/C++ code

Dave Bailey, IT Week, 05 Mar 2007

Application code security specialist Fortify Software will today unveil research from its Java Open Review (JOR) showing that there are "significantly fewer bugs in open-source Java components than in commercial C/C++ programs". Fortify founder Roger Thornton said that the difference was "an order of magnitude fewer".

This is in fact one of the main reasons, I switched from using C/C++ (used it for more than 10 years) in 1995 to Java.

Having to think about memory management, dangling pointers, uninitialized variables distracts you from what you try to achieve.

Also one of the nice things in Java was that everything is what it seems (no preprocessor).

Peter

Forget the Swing HTML Editor

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:08:00 GMT

I have changed my mind.

Developing the HTML editor using Swing JTextPane would cost to much time to develop.

I have now bought the HTML Editor from Sferyx.

It looks like it has everything I need.

A simple html editor for java

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:08:00 GMT

I am a big Java fan, but sometimes I can get a bit frustrated.

I need a simple html editor for my application. Should something like this be in swing ?

Yesterday I tried to use the HtmlEditorKit. It works for most things, but to let it work in the real world, you need a lot of extra code.

Drag and drop from Ms Word doesn't work out of the box.

It took me some time to figure out that you need to add this:

HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument)textPane.getDocument();
doc.putProperty("IgnoreCharsetDirective", Boolean.TRUE);
doc.setPreservesUnknownTags(false);

Next, you need to define all the needed actions like : 
align, lists, font selection, paragraph type, image and links...

I will need another full day to add these. ( and I lost already a lot of time yesterday ).