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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

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 ...