If you are into heavy server-side development, you probably do not pay much attention at other Java features, such as GUI. However, I like to dig everything around this great language and the platform. Some time ago, I came across “Synth” thing in Java. This is a way to customize and change look’n feel of your Swing application with no ugly code tweaks, but with a single XML file, which is great for designers and other not-programming folks.

I played with it for some time, came across some hard to find and fix issues, read about exciting and promising Synth features in JDK 6 and left it for the future.

The future is now but still there is not so much information on the subject and that is surprising. With the ‘new’ JDK 6, I hoped there would be more information, more tutorials; people would start looking at it. However, unfortunately the only information about Synth I can find on Google dates back to 2005. Strange.

Well, maybe today I will look into it again and try to get something done, like to build a ‘Javazing’ look’n feel that will resemble the design of that blog.

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