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 ...

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FOR YEARS NOW, Sun has promised the Java mantra: "Write once, run anywhere." The reality of developing Java applications for small spaces has tarnished that dream. Developing Java applications to run ...

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 ...

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While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK.