Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was ...

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Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its original ideals: a powerful, attractive, full ...

An essential part of complex enterprise applications is a console. Consoles are the simplest but most flexible user interface. They provide a window that allows the developer or system operator to ...

So, I feel kinda like I've coded myself (or been coded?) into a corner. A few years back, the local users came to me and asked me to parse some upstream provider's XML-based data so we could work with ...

I've got a class in java for a swing application that extends JFrame. This class is pretty much reponsible for everything to do with a certain window in the program. Everything works great, but come ...