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Java’s “official”, built-in UI toolkit, Swing, has had a difficult time over the years. It’s been derided as being slow, ugly and difficult to work with - which was true about 5 years ago. However ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java has been around for almost 30 years, and Oracle regularly boasts that the Java Virtual ...

Collabora is now also releasing its office suite as a desktop application. It uses web technology instead of the classic ...

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BERLIN – Sun Microsystems Inc. has just rolled out its first Linux-based desktop software and is working to secure deals with governments and businesses to deploy it, but the company isn’t targeting ...

One of the most powerful uses of scripting languages is in "application automation", that is, the idea of automating a long sequence of steps such as: "select paragraph at cursor, indent 3" right, ...