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 source code for the lightweight UI toolkit was released Thursday under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license. The toolkit includes a full set of "ready-made graphical components," along ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Developer tools and solutions provider Telerik has released a new version of its framework for building applications and Web sites with HTML5 and JavaScript that supports Java. This version, the third ...

Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its original ideals: a powerful, attractive, full-fledged windowing toolkit independent of ...

Somebody really needs to shake the good members of the Java Community Process and get them to stop including web UI frameworks as part of the Java EE specification. This is nothing against JavaServer ...

Sun has open sourced its toolkit for creating Java-based user interfaces for mobile phones. The source code for the lightweight UI toolkit was released Thursday under the "GPLv2 with Classpath ...