Pivot is a new GUI toolkit meant to compete with Flex and Silverlight, and is targeted specifically at Java applets powered by the upcoming consumer JRE.

Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His ...

Enhance your Web interfaces with powerful XML-configured applet components In the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) architecture’s presentation tier, servlets and JSPs (JavaServer Pages ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers.

Press Release RIM Announces BlackBerry Application Platform Enhancements to Foster Rich Content Development Open GL ES Support, Java GUI Builder and Theme Studio to Help Developers Generate Dynamic ...

GUI testing is a hard and often neglected task. We take a look at two open source solutions for writing SWT and Swing tests, SWTBot and Marathon, and how they can be used from JRuby. We talked to ...

Apple has released Java for OS X 2013-005, which “delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility for Java SE 6”. The update is available in the Mac App Store. Of note, the updates ...

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.

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers.