FifeCommon

FifeCommon is a base library for building Java Swing applications. It handles the following tasks:

• Application lifecycle (bootstrap, plugin loading, cleanup, shutdown)
• Preference loading and saving
• User-configurable key bindings
• Standard modals for Options, Help, About, Printing
• File chooser (richer feature set and improved usability over JFileChooser)
• Dockable windows

For a working example of an application built with this library, see the following projects:

• Edisen - A work-in-progress NES IDE
• RText - A programmer's text editor

FifeCommon is available in the Maven Central repository (com.fifesoft.rtext:fife.common:XXX).

Building

FifeCommon uses Gradle to build. To compile, run all unit tests, and create the jar, run:

./gradlew build --warning-mode all

Note that FifeCommon requires Java 25 or later to build.