Desktop Java is enjoying a long-overdue renaissance. But for Swing (the Java UI toolkit) to be taken seriously, Sun must pay closer attention to usability.

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...

However, Jsweet does not fully emulate Java. Existing Java applications may have to be modified in some measure, in particular those which use Java-specific APIs such as Swing for the user interface.

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.

We originally built a Java Swing app. It needed to be installed on desktops and was difficult to debug and improve the stability of. We moved to an HTML5 front end while partnering with OpenFin and ...

Experienced Swing developers can probably give the architecture a glance, then move on to refactoring the app for JavaFX in Part 2 and Part 3.