Currently, GNOME's Java bindings consist of four libraries—libgconf-java, libglade-java, libgnome-java and libgtk-java. libgtk-java and libgnome-java provide the GUI components of the bindings.

GUI testing is a hard and often neglected task. We take a look at two open source solutions for writing SWT and Swing tests, SWTBot and Marathon, and how they can be used from JRuby. We talked to Keta ...

Yes, solving this means creating yet another framework. Application framework note: It is worth mentioning that any GUI application beyond "Hello World" may need quiet a few extra things not provided ...

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.

In the first installment of this series, we outlined what it means to test graphical user interface (GUI) applications, and to what ends that testing is done. (See part 1.) Now we’ll apply those ...

Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development.