Like many Java programmers, you may have given up on writing client-side window applications. There’s a lot of debate about why client-side Java is out of fashion. But most of it boils down to the ...

The rise of the Internet and the Web browser as the universal computing client forced user-interface development and the overall user experience to take a step backwards. Web applications, due to ...

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 ...

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Portland, Ore.-based Instantiations Inc. has acquired SWT Designer, a design tool that is said to help software developers create rich client user interfaces for Java applications, from Eclipse ...

Scott Kovatch—formerly a senior software engineer at Apple, and currently senior computer scientist at Adobe—announced at WWDC that he will be leading a project to port the Mac OS X implementation of ...