In a world where Web-based applications have dominated the discourse lately, does the desktop still matter? Presenters at the appropriately named Desktop Matters conference in San Jose, Calif. argued ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

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Aternity has updated its application monitoring platform so that it can monitor Ajax-styled Web applications as well as 64-bit Java desktop applications, the company announced Tuesday. Aternity’s ...

JavaScript APIs are more popular than ever, especially now given the fact that so many organizations are now making their back-end services available through RESTful APIs that can be easily invoked by ...

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 ...

Behind such programs and more is the very technology at the center of an intense battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over control of desktop computers. Though Sun has mostly lost that fight, ...

Presenters at the appropriately named conference in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday afternoon argued that it does. Billed as “The Conference for Java Desktop Application Developers,” the event focuses ...