Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

What's the preferred toolkit/environment for creating GUI apps in Java nowadays? I've got a project coming up that requires a cross-platform GUI, and Java has already been pitched as the language ...

The source code for the lightweight UI toolkit was released Thursday under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license. The toolkit includes a full set of "ready-made graphical components," along ...

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technique aimed at creating better and faster interactive web apps by combining several programming tools including JavaScript, dynamic HTML (DHTML) and ...

There are very good reasons for Java’s long-lived popularity as a server-side platform. It combines unbeatable maturity and breadth with a long and ongoing history of innovation. Using Spring adds a ...

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK.

Google on Tuesday evening released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0 for building browser-based applications, offering enhancements for performance profiling and incremental downloading as well as a ...