Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:15:46 -0600
From: Cornelia Stinchcomb <neli@sni.net>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@eklektix.com>
Subject: Software Farm announces Mica


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ANNOUNCE: The Mica Graphics Framework Version 0.9
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Software Farm, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of
Mica, a free graphics and user interface toolkit for Java
programmers who want easy, powerful, and extraordinarily
graphical user interfaces for their appletcations.

Specifically, Mica is a modern object-oriented 2D graphics
library with a heavy emphasis on ease of use, portability 
and the ability to mix common user-interface widgets with
not so common widgets and graphs.
	
Mica provides a host of advanced features, including:

*	A large number of standard widgets (including
	a table, tree list, and property panels)

*	A large number of (node-arc) graph layouts

*	Object-oriented look (every visible artifact is
	an object) and feel (all event handling is handled
	by event handler objects)

*	Automatic layout validation and/or redraw when
	components are changed

*	A suite of appletcations including a network
	graph editor with customizable drag-and-drop
	palettes which reads and writes simple ASCII 
	text graphics files

And, oh yeah, an interactively programmable game of Life.

Mica is available on the web for general evaluation and use. 
The source code and class files are provided free of charge.

This is an alpha release for JDK 1.02.

Home Page:
	http://www.swfm.com
White Paper:
	http://www.swfm.com/mica/w_paper.pdf
Email Contact:
	mailto:info@swfm.com