I finally took a few minutes and put up some information about the Code Views project that I am working on. You can read more about the ideas behind this concept in the entries on annotating, internationalizing, adding images, de-textifying source code and simplifying the understanding of code structure.

Please post any questions or comments about Code Views to this entry.

I was recently looking for an effective and programmatic way to search through an API for method invocations when I stumbled on Prospector. After a little more searching I found this paper Jungloid Mining: Helping to Navigate the API Jungle and the main page for Prospector. While it's not what I was originally looking for, it is an interesting technology. For my personal experience, finding how to convert from one class to another is a common task and requires much time. I hope to see this and its children find its way into my IDE.

I recently stumbled on Bindmark which is purported to be "a comparison of the existing open-source and commercial (when available for free evaluation download) libraries for binding XML data to Java classes."

Does anyone know of a similar comparison for JTS implementations?

Microsoft introduced Sparkle last week at the PDC. There is an excellent video covering its capabilities over at Channel9.

For reasons that I don't completely understand, the industry is limiting its vision and only seeing this as a "Flash killer" or "MS Flash". I see this is a necessary and much needed combination of two traditionally disparate development steps: design of a user interface by a graphical designer and laying out that interface by a developer. I can't tell you how much time I have spent switching back and forth between Photoshop creating a particular interface look and then a visual interface designer (or even just directly in code *shudder*) implementing the design wondering if there was a better way. There are few times when you can point to a paradigm shift -- this is one of those times.

I am anxiously anticipating the companies that embrace this paradigm and move it to the next level!