Free swing software for linux

Luxor is a free, open-source XML UI Language (XUL) toolkit in released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) that lets you build UIs using XML and includes an ultra-light weight, multi-threaded web server, a portal engine, a template engine (Velocity), a scripting interpreter (Python) and more.

XUL stands for XML UI Language and was pioneered by Mozilla. XUL is superior to API-based UI toolkits such as Swing or WinForms because it clearly separates the user interface into four parts:

- content (structure and description of UI elements),
- appearance (look & feel, skin, themes),
- behavior (scripting) and
- locale (localization information for internationalization)

Content is best described in XUL as the following short example illustrates.

XUL makes UI building easier because it is far simpler than hard-wiring it in Java. XUL also frees you from the Swing toolkit lock-in because you can create a new rendering engine using a different UI toolkit such as KDE, Gnome, or WinForms.

WidgetServer (WiSer) is a Java/XML server-side GUI-framework which enables an application to run as either
- a monolithic application with a Swing GUI,
- a client/server application with a thin Swing client,
- or as an application with a rich Web client based on HTML and JavaScript
without any change!
The framework supports a mixed deployment mode, which enables one server to serve Swing clients and Web clients at the same time. A XML markup language helps to define an applications GUI.
Furthermore a common widget-based, object-oriented programming interface for Web and Swing GUIs is offered to the developer to control and assemble the GUI. This prevents from struggling with HTML, JavaScript and HTTP requests or from caring about the internals of Swing (e.g. Drag&Drop implementation).
For Swing client/server applications the framework cares for the client/server split as well as for the client/server communication including compression and security layers. The functionality of the Swing widget set is covered widely (and sometimes enhanced) in both (Swing and Web/HTML) client channels.
The project comes with a WYSIWYG GUI-builder which is completely build on the Wi.Ser-framework technology.
Main features:
- Support for internationalisation
- Standard widgets like inputfield, combobox, radiobuttons, ...
- Enhanced widgets like treeviews, table, tabbedpanes, splitpanes, ...
- XML configuration to separate GUI definition from application code
- Unified object oriented API for all targeted clients
- Support for drag&drop operations
- GridBagLayout and absolute positioning
- Support for MDI and SDI applications
- Multiple render/templatekits to support individual CIs and multiple browsers
- Preconfigured support for IE and Mozilla
- Snapshot render widget to use individual swing renderers within the framework
- DrawPane widget to create images on the fly
- GUI events like actionevent, clickevent, keyevent, ...can be received and handled on the serverside
- Plugin mechanism to exentd the framework
- Applications are deployed either into a standard servlet container
- or alternatively into the WidgetServer runtime
- Rich functionality for input validation
- GUI builder, examples and tutorial

steelme is an open-source theme manager for Java Swing programs. It allows the end user to select from pre-installed themes, or color schemes, or to create his own by the use of the ThemeEditor.

steelme is designed to be lightweight and easy for the application developer to use.

JDistro is a project to build a Java distribution.
The main subprojects are a shared runtime, an application launcher, a Swing desktop with document management, a transparent virtual file system, and an access to remote applications.
Enhancements:
- This release provides new jsh commands (expr, gc, ping, and stat), chat in Yak, and a djrate client.
- It also updates asm and the sound player.

gui4j is a framework for describing Java Swing GUIs completely in XML.

The graphical user interface is created dynamically based on the XML definitions. Each GUI window is associated with exactly one top-level XML file. Each XML file can dynamically include other XML files to support complex GUI definitions.

Each XML file is associated with a java object that acts as both a Controller and a Model for the GUI.

There is a strong layer separation between the GUI and the Controller: GUI definitions in the XML files can access all Java methods of the Controller, but Java methods cannot access any GUI elements directly.

Events are used to trigger changes in the GUI.

Accha is a program intended to help people learn the Hindi alphabet (Devanagari). Accha is written in Java/Swing, and should run equally well on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers.
Main features:
- Unicode display of Devanagari
- Audio of correct pronunciation
- Choose which letters to study
- Phonetic textual input (i.e. "sa" for ?)
- Display of previous right answer
Enhancements:
- This release updates Unicode functionality to work in the Windows operating system.
- Previously, it depended on Javas autodetection of the character set of the input file, which Linux and OS X did correctly, but Windows failed to do.
- It now specifically sets the character set to UTF-8 for Windows benefit.

IEncy short from Image Encyclopedia is a Java Swing application for searching the Web.
It simultaneously searches Wikipedia and a Web image search engine (initially alltheweb) for images.
Usage:
Write an expression of interest in the field above and hit Return. Results are currently fetched from Wikipedia(www.wikipedia.org) and alltheweb(www.alltheweb.com). Browser-Links can be activated.
Images appearing below can be increased and each one enlarged. Image loading might take some time, and some might not be available.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a memory leak with image window disposals.