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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the first installment of this series, we outlined what it means to test graphical user interface (GUI) applications, and to what ends that testing is done. (See part 1.) Now we’ll apply those ...

JNI is essential to the implementation of Java, since the JVM needs to interact with the native platform to implement some of its functionality. Apart from that, however, use of Java classes can often ...

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 ...