A potpourri of Java client application technologies were on the agenda at the Desktop Matters conference in San Jose, Calif., where the desktop received top billing over the Web.

Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was ...

The Swing Application Framework will not make it into Java 7, though a number of forks have subsequently sprung up to continue its development. Plans for another much requested feature, CSS-based ...

Figure 2 is a picture of the gcc-java-compiled Swing application shown in Listing 3. Listing 3 can be compiled with gcj --main=ExampleSwing -o ExampleSwing ExampleSwing.java.

JetBrains recently released the first major iteration of Projector, a technology that allows developers to run and operate Swing GUI applications remotely. Resource-hungry applications like Android St ...

Application framework note: It is worth mentioning that any GUI application beyond "Hello World" may need quiet a few extra things not provided by Swing (or Java) out of the box.

With JSR-223, you can use JavaScript, for example, to write a Swing application. Here is a simple Java script application that will create a JFrame with a single button with a listener: ...

Oracle threw a spotlight on JavaFX 1.3 last year when it announced the Composer plug-in for NetBeans 6.9, which provided a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI apps along the lines of the Swing ...

A potpourri of Java client application technologies is on the agenda at the conference in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, where the desktop gets top billing over the Web. Again dominating the discussion, ...

This tip explains a simple way of automating Java Swing application acceptance tests, starting from Swing components' unit tests and extending them to acceptance tests without human intervention.