Desktop Java is enjoying a long-overdue renaissance. But for Swing (the Java UI toolkit) to be taken seriously, Sun must pay closer attention to usability.

As Java GUI developers advanced from AWT to Swing, one of the key things pushed by Sun was the Swing toolkit’s single-threaded programming model. Here’s the single-thread rule from an early ...

For new Java programmers, the JOptionPane class is a great visual and user-friendly introduction to user input and Swing-based programming. Here's how to get started.

Despite these favorable attributes, the Swing toolkit has weaknesses. Swing suffers from the inherent limitation of a larger resource footprint and dependencies on the Java runtime environment ...

The toolkit allows one to see processor information, as well as allowing the development of Java and C/C++ code. It also includes an integrated graphical debugger.