A small desktop GUI built with Java Swing, using only the standard library — no Maven, no Gradle, no external dependencies. Just javac and java. The point is to learn how a desktop UI is actually ...

In this chapter of Modern Java we get to grips with the idea of a container that is used to host components to build a user interface. We also find out how the Swing GUI Builder generates code to make ...

Now that we are familiar with the basics of programming in Java, we'll take our next step towards making a visual Java application: creating a basic user interface. This is a quick introduction to ...

When Abacus Research AG, a business software development company in Switzerland, decided to switch development platforms from Borland’s Delphi to Java Swing, it found itself at a development ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a program I am writing in C++. While it could easily be a terminal program, I would like to also make some interface windows, nothing spectacular, just a title screen, a window full of command ...