Java Swing Swing is one of Java's most enduring desktop UI frameworks, and it continues to power high-quality applications across platforms. A prime example is the popular IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, ...

Take a walk on the client side with Qt Jambi -- an alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces.

But the opening keynote pitted desktop technologies including Swing against AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular technique for building Web applications. Speakers included Ben ...