Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

As Java GUI developers advanced from AWT to Swing, one of the key things pushed by Sun was the Swing toolkit’s single-threaded programming model. Here’s the single-thread rule from an early ...

Ars Praefectus 23y 3,728 Nov 25, 2011 #1 So, I'm trying to make a Java/Swing GUI that looks like this: Code: ...

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 Keta ...

A GUI application’s acceptance test is not straightforward, but, in the case of Swing GUI applications, a small scaffolding utility can automate both unit and acceptance tests.

JDebugTool is a standalone graphical Java debugger built on top of the standard JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). JDebugTool features a graphical and intuitive Java Swing GUI, and ...