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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JavaFX has undergone a remarkable transformation since its initial introduction, evolving from an experimental UI scripting framework to a mature, feature-packed platform for developing user ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

Widget set Let’s recall the boundaries for this series. We’re looking at GUI toolkits applicable to a broad range of office automation and engineering tasks, including system administration, ...