As mentioned by the other answers, you could in theory of course unzip your JVM’s rt.jar file and replace the file with a compatible bugfixed version. Any classes of the Java Class library such as those of Swing are loaded by the bootstrap class loader which looks up its classes from this rt.jar. You can … Read more
Take a look at this implementation: http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-Components/InvisibleNodeTreeExample.htm It creates subclasses of DefaultMutableNode adding a “isVisible” property rather then actually removing/adding nodes from the TreeModel. Pretty sweet I think, and it solved my filtering problem neatly.
I can also offer you a new LaF to look into – WebLaF. I’am currently working on it to bring a lot of UI features and make work with Swing much easier for anyone by just using WebLaF library basic features. A few examples showing how some of WebLaF components look like: Some of main … Read more
New Update (Based on Comments) As indicated by @kleopatra (core member of the Swing Labs team) the project is dead. Since java.net is no longer available this seems to be dead. If you still want to use it @emmanuel-bourg referenced this mirror https://github.com/ebourg/swingx and this one https://github.com/RockManJoe64/swingx Older Update SwingX 1.6.5-1 is released (actually, a … Read more
What will be cleaner and easier to maintain? All things being equal, probably JavaFX – the API is much more consistent across components. However, this depends much more on how the code is written rather than what library is used to write it. And what will be faster to build from scratch? Highly dependent on … Read more