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 ...

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.

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.

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.

However, Jsweet does not fully emulate Java. Existing Java applications may have to be modified in some measure, in particular those which use Java-specific APIs such as Swing for the user interface.

"A Java Swing application, a Java Webstart application, a .NET application; those are pretty good for departmental or campus applications, but they come with high costs, complexities and often poor ...

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, ...