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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

The command-line interface (CLI) is the inner world of software development. From the shell, we have direct access to all the operating system’s capabilities, and with that comes the power to compose ...