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The reviews are in: JFugue is a hit!
May 30, 2007

At this year’s JavaOne, I presented JFugue to an audience of 136 people (Session TS-1130). I’m pleased to report that I’ve heard favorable reviews all around!
Geertjan Wielenga, my co-presenter who demonstrated his Music NotePad (backed by JFugue), had this to say (Link):
“[...] it was up there with the best presentations I have ever attended. [...]

Animation, Filthy-Rich Clients, and the Rebirth of Java Swing
March 22, 2007

As my follow-up act to JFugue, which brings easy music programming to the masses, I had already started work on another API that would allow for easy animation programming. Sprites and animated graphics are not trivial; like JFugue, my new animation API would make animation possible in only a few lines.
However, it’s possible that [...]

Java released to Open Source community
November 13, 2006

Sun will be releasing Java under the GPL Open Source license.
While we’ve always been able to download the source code to see what goes on behind-the-scenes in Java’s classes, this is the first time that the javac compiler and JVM code will be revealed. Sun should finish releasing the source code to its implementation [...]