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 ...

(click image for larger view and for full photo gallery) Last month, Google acquired Instantiations, a maker of Java programming tools, for an undisclosed sum. This month, Google is offering ...

When I graduated from college the company I went to work for trained me in PowerBuilder. It is a 4GL with an excellent WYSIWYG GUI development environment. It supposedly supports a couple of *nix ...

JavaFX was something of a darling of JavaOne this week. Oracle not only came through on its promised update of the Java user interface (UI) platform, it delivered additional features, such as a new ...

A potpourri of Java client application technologies were on the agenda at the Desktop Matters conference in San Jose, Calif., where the desktop received top billing over the Web. Dominating the ...

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