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 ...

When people ask me why I prefer IntelliJ IDEA for Java development, my answer usually comes down to one thing: it feels like ...

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 ...

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 ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...

Java on Visual Studio Code got some UI changes including new sections for the project settings page, along with improvements for Spring development. In the regular monthly update announced last week, ...

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 ...

Rich Java applications offer an alternative that can have advantages over Ajax. Ajax is great for many applications, but not for all applications. When applications get large, need to scale, or ...

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 ...