Hello,

Find below of a list of software updates and notes
about major changes in the JGoodies libs and apps.


UPDATES
The following software updates have been published:
o Binding 1.1
o Forms 1.0.6
o Looks 2.0 Beta
o UIF 1.5.0
o UIF Extras 1.5.0
o Validation 1.1
o Swing Suite 1.5.0 Beta
o Looks Demo 2.0 Beta
o Validation Demo 1.1


IMPORTANT NOTE: To avoid duplicate and incompatible library
versions in your classpath, I recommend to remove library
jars from the Java extension directory (<jre-home>/lib/ext).
For more information on that issue see the Looks FAQ #1.7.


MAJOR CHANGES
The Swing Suite 1.5 Beta includes the recent JGoodies libraries.
The Looks, Binding, and Validation updates contain binary
incompatible API changes. The Looks update may also change
the appearance of your applications. Find details in each
library project's Release Notes.

The Looks 2.0 (Beta) leads to a better appearance on Java 5,
Java 6, with Windows Vista and in non-western environments.
It is strongly recommended to read the Looks 2.0 Release Notes.

The UIF, UIF Extras and all example apps have been refreshed
to work with the new Looks and Binding APIs. However, they
do not yet demonstrate all of the new library features.

Skeleton Pro has been extended to demonstrate how to validate
the editor content and how to veto against node changes.
The implementation is a draft, but it already outlines
how to add such a mechanism to the application.
This shall be completed for the Swing Suite 1.5 final.


DISTRIBUTION CHANGES
The sources for the Looks 2.0, Binding 1.1 and Validation 1.1
now ship as a source tree, not as a Zip archive. And these
distributions use the same directory structure as the CVS.
This makes it easier to build a customized version with ANT.

Also, the UIF and UIF-Extras are now located under "libraries",
not "framework".



DOWNLOADS
The Swing Suite 1.5 Beta is available from the JGoodies
product download page; access is password protected
http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/products.html


YOUR FEEDBACK
If you have questions or suggestions regarding
this mail, please post to the technical JGoodies list,
not to this low-traffic announcement list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JGoodies_unmoderated/


Best regards,
Karsten Lentzsch