In this chapter of Modern Java we get to grips with the idea of a container that is used to host components to build a user interface. We also find out how the Swing GUI Builder generates code to make ...

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 ...

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 ...