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Monday, December 19, 2005

Java System Tray Notification

After lots of attempts to display a baloon notification from the windows systray, I found this as a widget. ! Check out this page. This one uses SWT. You can also do the same from plain vanilla java swing, using the upcoming JDIC features that are being incorporated in to Mustang.
It is interesting to note that this feature which is obviously platform dependent is being incorporated in to the java.awt.* package. While that package choice is expected , considering the platform dependence of having to execute native code to achieve this, what is surprising that Mustang too stays true to the AWT architecture of having peer components. Contrary to the SWT widget set, which does not have inherent support for Tray notifications, Mustang's JDIC is really feature rich providing full flexibility when using the Tray Icon API.

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