Pluggable Look'n Feel

Although it is a small feature, "cold deploy" of pluggable Look'n Feel brings a professional look to the Swing based applications. Put a pluggable Look'n Feel library (as a .jar file) into the lib/ext folder of the Swing application and it will be deployed automatically. Look'n Feel can be enforced by a configuration file named plaf.properties that lies in the conf folder.

Some Links

There is a nice site about pluggable Look'n Feel, where you can find tons of looks. Here are some Look'n Feel that have been successfully tested on EJTools applications :

• The Kunststoff Look&Feel (Open Source under LGPL 2.1)
• The JGoodies Looks (Open Source under BSD License)