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 ...

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 ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Corporate managers bought into J2EE technology and tools in a big way. Now, faced with the difficult task of building complex enterprise Java applications, they worry if they can find enough skilled ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...