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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Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

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 ...

importPackage(java.awt.event) importPackage(javax.swing) //Create a JButton var b = new JButton("Press me") //Create a listener and add it to the button var act ...

JavaFX was something of a darling of JavaOne this week. Oracle not only came through on its promised update of the Java user interface (UI) platform, it delivered additional features, such as a new ...

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 ...