With these, developers can expand far beyond what was possible with traditional UI frameworks such as Swing and AWT. The role of Swing and Java's AWT Included as part of the original 1995 JDK release, ...

Oracle submitted its Java Specification Request (JSR) 198 proposal last month to the Java Community Process (JCP), the Sun Microsystems-led program for introducing new features into Java ...

Various toolkits and frameworks have been released over the years for building rich, GUI-based Java applications for the desktop. [ Paul Krill explains Oracle’s new plans for JavaFX.