Nimbus is getting a new home

December 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve already mentioned that the upcoming Nimbus look-and-feel is not being hosted in a usual location (javax.swing package). While at first the NimbusLookAndFeel class was in a sun.swing.plaf.nimbus package, it has now been moved to a new home – com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus, whose parent package also hosts GTK, Motif and Windows look-and-feels.

Bug 6616742 is the reason – Nimbus was not available in unsigned applets due to class loading restrictions on internal sun.swing packages. It also fixes 6618285 – using the NimbusLookAndFeel class directly in the source code.

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2 Comments on “Nimbus is getting a new home”

  1. 1 Richard Bair said at 9:42 am on December 19th, 2007:

    Actually, it is in com.sun.java.swing.plaf. The bug report (or whatever your source) was incorrect. Just for fun, it used to be in this package originally, then got moved to sun.swing, then has finally moved back :-).

  2. 2 Kirill Grouchnikov said at 10:23 am on December 19th, 2007:

    Richard – the source was 6616742. I’m glad to hear that the package is aligned with other LAFs.