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 ...

GUI testing is a hard and often neglected task. We take a look at two open source solutions for writing SWT and Swing tests, SWTBot and Marathon, and how they can be used from JRuby. We talked to ...

When people ask me why I prefer IntelliJ IDEA for Java development, my answer usually comes down to one thing: it feels like ...

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 ...

Instructive is this discussion on java.net about Sun basically pulling funding for SwingX, aka SwingLabs, an open source project that aims to expand the venerable Swing UI toolkit.

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This tip explains a simple way of automating Java Swing application acceptance tests, starting from Swing components' unit tests and extending them to acceptance tests without human intervention.

As with Kotlin, a key feature is interoperability with Java, in this case Oracle's Swing UI toolkit for Java. JetBrains' Android-to-desktop development program is still in its early stages, but it ...