Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His ...

If you’re not familiar with Java Swing, Oracle has an excellent tutorial to get you started, Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing. Skip the Netbeans section. I put a calendar graphical user interface (GUI) ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...

Go to “File” > “New” > “Java Project.” Enter a project name and select the JRE version. Next, add a new class to the project. Step 2: Design the GUI. In Eclipse, open the class that you created in ...

Description: Welcome to the Simple Java Calculator with GUI project! This project aims to provide a user-friendly calculator application built using Java and Swing, offering basic arithmetic ...

A GUI application’s acceptance test is not straightforward, but, in the case of Swing GUI applications, a small scaffolding utility can automate both unit and acceptance tests.

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 ...

Automation is necessary for frequent and consistent testing, which is the foundation of agile development. However, acceptance tests of GUI applications are not always easy to automate. This tip ...