The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

FuseSource has released a new developer environment for Apache’s open source messaging software Potentially making a lightweight enterprise integration tool even easier to use, FuseSource has released ...

Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was ...

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 ...

Most applications are designed to help people get their job done, so the success of an application often depends largely on how people use it. Many application development teams falsely assume that ...

The java.awt.Robot class provides several opportunities for fun. One opportunity involves building a screen-capture utility. This Java Fun and Games installment presents a utility that uses Robot to ...