I'm writing an application to learn Swing. I've done myself no favors in that I keep changing the target, and now I'm approaching the level where I've glommed to many hacks and fixes onto my original ...

Upgrading a Swing-based app to JavaFX gives you access to the modern UI features of a RIA framework, as well as the ability to easily deploy your application in multiple environments. In this article, ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if all Java classes that you use, including your own, lived up to their promises? In fact, wouldn’t it be nice if you actually knew exactly what a given class promises? If you ...

A potpourri of Java client application technologies is on the agenda at the conference in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, where the desktop gets top billing over the Web. Again dominating the discussion, ...

This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of success. This book offers practical, concrete ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...