Which is better for your next Java GUI project: Java Swing vs. JavaFX? This tip explores their history and capabilities to help you choose the right one.

In real life components grow even bigger as developers have to handle many cases omitted in book examples. Problem #1: Application components mix many unrelated things in a single component class, ...

While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java 1.0 to its origins in the JavaBeans component model and AWT, he reveals an initialization bug in a commonly used start-up pattern.