Put Icon On Your Jar File

This new project named DJ Project enables the windows based users to replicate the typical Mac users' actions of treating their jar files as "executable program" placing icons on them similar to the Exe files in java.Well this project out here enables the users to customize thier choice of jar files and allows them to make them like as though they were exe files.This is a good shell modification but only meant for Windows and not any other OperatingSystem.

The above pic shows shows how the jar files will look after the shell modification done by DJ Project. You can Download it here

Nimbus Look And Feel Revealed

Jasper Potts has put together the components of the cool new and Nimbus Look and feel,this L&F looks promising is am sure is all set to change the historical appearance of the java apps.This will now be substituting the older metal look and feel(L&F) as the new more crazier and wackier
(Awesome Looking)cross platform L&F for java.A little preview of the Focused Components in Nimbus.For more you can go here

Filthy Rich Clients Now available on Amazon.com

Finally my much awaited book Filthy Rich Client is about to roll out and i will register for pre-release soon......

The book is co-authored by my favorite Java developer Romain Guy........He is my inspiration!!!

I really can’t wait to get a final printed copy!

This made me jump out of my seat!

I received this mail with the senders name -"codesite-noreply"-confusing name no?!
Will this was the mail responsible for making me jump out of my chair!!!!!!

well here's what it read-"Dear Ashish Lijhara,
The Application "NYou Tube-this what i propose" has been updated by Patrick W. Barnes. To see this new addition please go to"and then link to my fedora application request which left my mouth wide open

well here is the resopnse-"

Patrick W. Barnes

This sounds like a neat project, but YouTube requires proprietary technologies (Flash) that are not FOSS and cannot, by policy, be included in Fedora. We also do not include the Sun Java implementation, only the FOSS GCJ stack, which may not be suitable for your project. You should consider submitting this proposal to another organization."

Well this guy Patrick,said what i wanted to listen to in the first line itself"This sounds like a neat project"!!!!!!

Seriously i am happy!!!!!
Atleast now i expect that some other mentoring organization might just like it........I can finally see some ray of hope........

Proposal to GSOC 2007

I have taken my initial step towards being noticed in the Google summer of code yesterday.I had already registered but now i have posted my proposal for "NYou Tube" to around 6 organizations including the Google,Ubuntu,The Apache Project and Mozilla organization.Now i am waiting for them to review my proposal.

I posted my proposal yesterday and had included that i will put in one more feature which is the chat feature........Yeah you read it right!!!!!The chat feature but this is subjected to time constraint if i have time in plenty i will also put in google maps api or yahoo map api to use that will locate the position of your friends all over the world.
It will also include the Voip feature powered by for java.

the above features are subjected to time constraint.If not able to add these features i will add atleast the chat feature.All the above features will appear in the subsequent versions and this is a promise.

But if not selected in GSOC these features will surely reflect in the first version itself.........

Still hoping to get selected in GSOC.

My Proposal For GSOC

Well this is the first post ever in my life.

This being upon my longing for working under the open source environment putting into use the Google Api for youtube.I'll be using Java to develop it so guys nothing to bother about will run on any operating system in the world!!!!

I want to start this under the well known Google Sumer Of Code that is propelling the Developers to go open source.

The Application(software) i propose to build will be named "NYou Tube".This will allow the youtube users to access(all the videos,their quick lists,fav. videos,friends,uploads,etc)from the application itself making it an easier task to blog/share their video creation with the friends,family and the world!!!

I am posting the raw images of what it would look like the images are only a sort of a map of the final application.
this will be the window.The place where i propose to put player will embed a web browser and preferably firefox or the native browser the will embed the swf player from youtube and the page will be refreshed each time another video is selected.As i said this is just a map so nothing is clear of the final thing i have in mind but keep checking out my blog for the things to come .....wait i am not over yet !!!!!!




Here is an itunes style video selection that will roll down as a dilog box and the base(host/parent)
window will be blur disabled and after the thumbnails are loaded,the components will drop down which i will borrow from an application provided by Simon Morris shown here:

The above application has put java to awesome use!!!!I simply love it......

Well continuing with the dilog box(video selection dilog) here is the image of what it would look like:
I will use the best looking look and feels in the software.....will also add a feature to customize skins(later may not be in the first version but will be present in the subsequent versions)
Well,i hope you like my idea!
I simply hope i get selected at the Google Summer Of Code!!!!!But you need not worry selected or not i will develop this software and it will be open source....

Please pray for me that i get selected!!! ;-)