Java has been in the news a lot lately, and not for good reasons. Critical security flaws have allowed hackers to take complete control of PCs, and in-the-wild attacks exposed a problem Oracle went ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

Every dollar schools and universities spend on expensive, proprietary software is a dollar less spent on education. So it is really no surprise that schools and universities worldwide have embraced ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...

During the launch of Sun's Java Desktop System (JDS), the company touted its product as a real alternative to Microsoft Windows. During an interview, Peder Ulander, the then director of marketing for ...

Sun Microsystems finally received the seal of approval it has been seeking from a large private sector client for its Java Desktop System, with the announcement Tuesday that the Allied Irish Bank is ...

There's a lot of excitement in the Java community regarding the latest long-term support JDK release. When that release debuts, Java developers will be welcomed with the familiar Hello World program ...