Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design By Leonard Slipp February 5, 2001 ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management ...

Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

Wicket joins a long list of open-source tools and frameworks available for Java developers. In addition to JFC/Swing, Eclipse, Struts, Cocoon and Hibernate are among some of the more well-known.

However, many in the Java community criticize Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and Swing. Swing doesn’t offer much help in creating a high-level Model-View-Controller (MVC) client architecture.