This Java Swing tip illustrates a method of creating fancy buttons in your applications. The code uses JButton as the base and then add a roll over image on the button.

While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java 1.0 to its origins in the JavaBeans component model and AWT, he reveals an initialization bug in a commonly used start-up pattern.

Java's Swing components have been implemented using the model-view-controller (MVC) model. Any Swing component can be viewed in terms of three independent aspects: what state it is in (its model), how ...

Swing's ButtonGroup class allows radio button grouping to ensure single selection; however, the implementation raises many question marks. You cannot retrieve a reference to the currently selected ...