The Eclipse consortium for open source tools on Tuesday is announcing its Visual Editor Project, to deliver a visual GUI construction and editor platform. With Eclipse’s Visual Editor reference ...

Let's not mince words. XML solutions that were either complex or too simplistic had me frustrated, so in June 2001 I started working on a simple content-management and publishing solution based on XML ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new release, Eclipse 3.0, includes significant improvements for building Java desktop applications and a host of developer usability enhancements, developers on the project said Tuesday. Eclipse 3 ...

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the launch of the Indigo release train. The coordinated release includes 62 projects with over 400 individual developers. Of course this comes out the day after I ...

The Java community has no shortage of IDEs for active development. With so many available options, an organization's final choice will come down to development needs and preferences. There are more ...