Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

Jigloo is an Eclipse plug-in that enables you to build sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for applications to run on Java platform. It has been made by CloudGarden for building user ...