I’m looking at starting a new project and once again find myself choosing between frameworks. Having spent some time evaluating different ones I wrote up some notes to share and get some feedback that might alter my thoughts or opinions. Here’s the criteria I’m using to choose a framework in no particular order.
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Create glass effect buttons using nothing but Java code and JTexGen, a procedural texture library for Java. First create a new project in your favorite IDE and add the JTextGen jar file, or create a new maven project and add the JTexgen dependency if you installed it from the source distribution into your local repository.
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