By Ethan Nicholas When the venerable Metal look and feel for Swing first debuted, its main aesthetic competition was the Windows 95 interface . Given the state of graphical user interfaces a ...

Scripting (JSR223, co-bundling Mozilla Rhino, others supported, see scripting.dev.java.net) Desktop (look-n-feel including vista, antialiased fonts, benefit 10-12% on older machines, 60-70% range ...

"If Sun is already working on emulating Longhorn's look and feel in Swing, then there is no "catch up" being played. They will be just as up-to-date as SWT on Longhorn," Franklin told Builder AU.

In fact, the AbaGUIBuilder features most of the Swing visual components, from panels to tab pages, as well as menu and menu items, database-aware components using Java Database Connectivity ...

I've been recently playing around with Java as I'm planning on doing a project that needs to be cross platform even though it will be developed on a Mac. Now it's been a couple of years since I've ...