We’ve discussed here before the brewing battle between Swing and JavaFX for the hearts and minds of desktop Java GUI developers. Will the two technologies develop in parallel, each with their own ...

In this chapter of Modern Java we get to grips with the idea of a container that is used to host components to build a user interface. We also find out how the Swing GUI Builder generates code to make ...

Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: ...

Jigloo is an Eclipse plug-in that enables you to build sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for applications to run on Java platform. It has been made by CloudGarden for building user ...

In the second part of our beginner's guide to Modern Java, we find out more about objects by exploring the Swing framework with a simple hands-on example. In Getting started with Java we covered the ...