Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

What's the preferred toolkit/environment for creating GUI apps in Java nowadays? I've got a project coming up that requires a cross-platform GUI, and Java has already been pitched as the language ...

Alex Ruiz follows up his popular JavaOne 2007 presentation with this introduction to test-driven GUI development with FEST. Learn what differentiates FEST (formerly TestNG-Abbot) from other GUI ...

The world of Java depends on two established GUI toolkits: Swing and SWT (standard widget toolkit). Both software packages provide the widgets, controls, menus, and user interface components in most ...

Con-Way is an IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer customer. "Since we don't program smaller apps it's hard to say, but even if a quick GUI building tool à la Visual Basic for Java was available ...

If you want to be a productive member of a software development team, it's important to master the key Java programming tools and technologies. These tools reach across a variety of areas, and ...

The big brains on the Java team at Sun Microsystems have what Graham Hamilton, Sun's vice president and fellow for Java platform and architecture, calls "a secret obsession." "The Java developer base ...

I have a big project to work on next semester that I have to build a GUI for. So I wanted to ask the *NIX community a question: which toolkit would you recommend for development now and for when I am ...

Oracle's debut of Java Standard Edition 7 in July was a significant event on several fronts. The release was the first major update to the development platform in nearly five years. It also marked the ...