Separate business logic from UI (Presenter/Calculator vs. Swing Panel). Mock external services (e.g., XML-RPC) for fast, deterministic tests. Keep the EDT (Event Dispatching Thread) responsive by ...

CodeGear has teamed up with Instantiations, a provider of software products, services and technologies for Eclipse, Java and Smalltalk. The companies plan to add Instantiations' Swing Designer visual ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...

Upgrading a Swing-based app to JavaFX gives you access to the modern UI features of a RIA framework, as well as the ability to easily deploy your application in multiple environments. In this article, ...

In spite of JavaFX's steep learning curve, its "eye candy factor" convinced Lynden Inc. senior software architect Rob Terpilowski to leave Swing behind and use JavaFX to design rich user interfaces ...