The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs) has lately become a hot topic in the Java community. In addition to new technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), MacroMedia Flex, and ...

Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model ...

But once those decisions are made and the rubber hits the road, they'll likely be leveraging the MVC 1.0 API for developing presentation-tier components, and it's the new Java EE Security API, ...