First of all, I don’t really have any code, because it’s a universal problem I’m seeing and am just wondering if anyone else has ever encountered it.
As near as I can tell the eclipse and JNLP UI properties are identical…So, what I am seeing is that when assigning the exact same component – any component – the exact same font (I’m using Arial, Bold, 12 for everything) and the results in JNLP and Eclipse are slightly different, even when run on the exact same computer.
Here’s a screenshot (Eclipse result is on top, JNLP result is on bottom):

Anyhoo, if anyone has ever seen this or has any suggestions, that would be appreciated.
Thanks!
It is most probably the properties used by the JRE for text antialiasing. Visit this code to experiment.