The Swing Application Framework will not make it into Java 7, though a number of forks have subsequently sprung up to continue its development. Plans for another much requested feature, CSS-based ...

Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

TikeSwing is an open source Swing framework that provides a high-level Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture and simplifies the usage of Swing components. The framework supports the plain-old ...

Artima has an interview with Hans Muller, the spec lead for JSR 296: Swing Application Framework discussing where it fits in with existing gui toolkits and rich client platforms as well as how it ...

Effective memory management in Java relies on effective reference management by Java programmers. Reference management can be difficult in the context of framework-based development. Leonard provides ...

One of the favorite, most effective means of helping users accomplish their goals is to use 'wizards': step-by-step, fill-in-the-blank guides that can lead users gently toward getting the job done.

Using Java and the swing framework, provide example code for handling a text field with a single character input. Provide filters for the character inputs to restrict values to 1-9 and " ".

Wicket joins a long list of open-source tools and frameworks available for Java developers. In addition to JFC/Swing, Eclipse, Struts, Cocoon and Hibernate are among some of the more well-known.

In the previous Industry Insight in this series, I looked at a number of the Java Web frameworks available on the market. In this Industry Insight, I'll consider ZK and Echo, and begin looking at ...