The IBM-led Eclipse open source tools framework avoids Java's Swing libraries in favor of its own Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), which works especially well in Windows environments. Eclipse also ...

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.

Here are three Java Hello World examples developers can use to get started on the new release:. Hello World with a console output; Hello World with a Java Swing component; Hello World with a static ...

The evolution of Java desktop technology is straightforward and distinct from web UI development, which has seen much more advancement and the introduction of many new frameworks. Let's take a deep ...