Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

What's the preferred toolkit/environment for creating GUI apps in Java nowadays? I've got a project coming up that requires a cross-platform GUI, and Java has already been pitched as the language ...

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 ...

A core feature of the MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) technology is its support for developing mobile phone user interfaces. The MIDP provides a set of Java APIs known as the LCDUI, which has ...

The source code for the lightweight UI toolkit was released Thursday under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license. The toolkit includes a full set of "ready-made graphical components," along ...

FOR YEARS NOW, Sun has promised the Java mantra: "Write once, run anywhere." The reality of developing Java applications for small spaces has tarnished that dream. Developing Java applications to run ...

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

The decision of which technology stack to use for a new mobile application is one of the most critical choices a business ...

Sun has open-sourced its toolkit for creating Java-based user interfaces for mobile phones. The source code for the lightweight UI toolkit (LWUIT) was released on Thursday under the 'GPLv2 with ...