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 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 ...

But I'm having trouble making the search area look 'normal' ... everything blows up to fill the grid I've created there instead of looking more naturally form-like ... the code I'm using follows (let ...

Automation is necessary for frequent and consistent testing, which is the foundation of agile development. However, acceptance tests of GUI applications are not always easy to automate. This tip ...

JDebugTool is a standalone graphical Java debugger built on top of the standard JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). JDebugTool features a graphical and intuitive Java Swing GUI, and ...

I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up with ...