Suppose you’ve written an application with a GUI using Swing components such as JTable or JTextPane. All these components are derived from the abstract class javax ...

Ease of use is a frequently cited mantra in software that is meant to reduce human drudgery and tedium. Unfortunately, much of the software in the market is often unfriendly to first-time or casual ...

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 ...

The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs) has lately become a hot topic in the Java community. In addition to new technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), MacroMedia Flex, and ...

The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...