While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java 1.0 to its origins in the JavaBeans component model and AWT, he reveals an initialization bug in a commonly used start-up pattern.

However, I’m convinced that the real reason for the poor state of Java’s component marketplace is that Java developers (myself included) have grown used to free/open-source software. So nowadays we ...

In real life components grow even bigger as developers have to handle many cases omitted in book examples. Problem #1: Application components mix many unrelated things in a single component class, ...

This article explains a simple way of automating Java Swing application acceptance tests, starting from Swing components' unit tests and extending them to acceptance tests without human intervention.

In July, while the JSF project was still underway, Hutchinson noticed that Canoo Engineering AG, a Swiss company that offers a server-side API to Java Swing components (text boxes, buttons, other ...