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Poll: Topic for phoneME Advanced Web seminar
I'm taking a poll to see what topic would be good for a future phoneME Advanced Web seminar (tentatively Thu. 27Sep2007 @ 0800 AM, US/Pacific
Time). Please log in and vote at: https://forums.java.net/jive/poll.jspa?pollID=4. Thanks. — 

Request for feedback: implementing Swing-based drawers
I've inherited some code to which I need to add a 'dresser drawer' like functionality. Click on a logical 'open' button and the drawer opens, revealing, or displaying as the case may be, a JPanel with more stuff in it. Click on a logical 'close' button and the drawer closes, leaving its container in the visual state in which it started. A familiar example of this effect might be something like the Mac Dock in 'auto hide' mode, where the Dock moves in and out of sight and addressability with some pointer action. The Dock is always 'there', but sometimes just not visible. So it would be with the drawer. I am wondering if a solution would be based loosely on theDrawer.setVisible(), or whether something that sets the drawer's component width or height to 0 for-hide would be more likely. Can anyone offer guidance on how to approach this using standard Swing techniques? — 

Push via messaging vs pull via polling..
I'm starting to consider how I'm going to design a portion of my application. I guess the best way to describe it would be "a queue shared between multiple application clients / users." I can think of two ways to do this... 1. Use the messaging system to publish changes relevant to the queue to subscribed application clients. 2. Have each application client poll the server (refresh) at regular intervals. I'd like to know if anyone has any thoughts / comments relating to either strategy. I have a preference, but would like to see what other people think before I start. —