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.

While you can build Java applet GUIs using Sun's Swing the results are usually rather ugly and clunky looking. There's also the problem that quite a bit of programming effort will be required for ...

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 ...