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 ...

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 ...

This project was built as part of my transition from QA leadership into hands-on automation. I used a mix of tutorials, documentation, and AI assistance to guide development, ensuring I understand ...

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 ...

Even for development teams with an agile practice, testing, especially testing of a constantly evolving user interface can be a bottleneck if test scripts have to be manually rewritten to account for ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

I mentioned in passing last week Frank Sommers’ discussion of JavaFX hurting client-side Java — specifically by absorbing programmer-hours that could have otherwise been put into improving other Java ...