Suppose you’ve written an application with a GUI using Swing components such as JTable or JTextPane. All these components are derived from the abstract class javax ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

Hi guys,<br><br>I'm writing a custom JDialog window by extending the JDialog class. All good so far. However, there is one problem that bothers me: The components won't display until I manually resize ...

The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...

As Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) take center stage in the race to develop user interfaces for rich Internet applications, some companies have had good results with pure Java. In March 2005, ...

Sonatype has just released its second annual report on managing open source components. The "2016 State of the Software Supply Chain" report is available now, and well worth reading. Among the things ...

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