Take a walk on the client side with Qt Jambi -- an alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces.

Because Java doesn’t have a powerful and modern 2D graphics — still! There are many occasions when you might need graphics: custom UI widget libraries and whole toolkits, graphs, diagrams, ...

Test for check pixel-by-pixel identical text rendering with Graphics2D.drawString on all java platforms with same font. Contributions are welcome, but there are no guarantees that they are accepted as ...

In this article, an excerpt from iText in Action (Manning Publications, December 2006), author Bruno Lowagie shows how easy it is to export any Swing component to PDF using iText's PdfGraphics2D ...