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.

It's good to know how to code a GUI by hand, but it's idiotic to continue doing it. You're supposed to use a GUI builder, don't code by hand just to look macho.

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 ...