JavaScript APIs are more popular than ever, especially now given the fact that so many organizations are now making their back-end services available through RESTful APIs that can be easily invoked by ...

In a world where Web-based applications have dominated the discourse lately, does the desktop still matter? Presenters at the appropriately named Desktop Matters conference in San Jose, Calif. argued ...

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 ...

Java Essentials Volume 2 provides structured pathway from Java fundamentals to advanced application development ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

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The rise of the Internet and the Web browser as the universal computing client forced user-interface development and the overall user experience to take a step backwards. Web applications, due to ...

I have only one piece of advice for Scott: If you really want an alternative to Windows, buy a Mac. It runs Unix just fine, has a great and stable graphical desktop environment that for the most part ...

Behind such programs and more is the very technology at the center of an intense battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over control of desktop computers. Though Sun has mostly lost that fight, ...

Presenters at the appropriately named conference in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday afternoon argued that it does. Billed as “The Conference for Java Desktop Application Developers,” the event focuses ...