Short overview of what you have be aware of when you try to create a HTML5 port of your custom Java Swing components. Unfortunately one could not simply convert the Swing component to HTML5 but with a little knowledge and fortune one could port most of the Java2D code to HTML5 Canvas. As an example a gauge from the Java Swing library "SteelSeries" will be ported to HTML5 Canvas.
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Gerrit Grunwald is working as a team leader of a small group of software developers at Raith GmbH, where he work for around 10 years. His technical interests include desktop software development, preferably using modern, object-oriented and/or component based techniques, and specifically the subareas - Java Swing component development, HTML5 canvas and svg.
He's a decent-frequency blogger and the leader of the Java User Group in Münster (Germany), where he's living. In addition he is the author of the SteelSeries Java Swing component library and it's javascript counterpart.
He has been involved in the IT industry since 1996, when he started studying Applied Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Münster (Germany). In 2001, he joined Raith where he started to work as an application scientist, but soon started working in the software development group that he's leading now.
