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Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs) has lately become a hot topic in the Java community. In addition to new technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), MacroMedia Flex, and ...

ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Ease of use is a frequently cited mantra in software that is meant to reduce human drudgery and tedium. Unfortunately, much of the software in the market is often unfriendly to first-time or casual ...

A new open-source framework aimed at simplifying the development of Java-based Web applications will debut at JavaOne Monday with support from a former Sun Microsystems Java evangelist. Wicket, an ...

A few years ago I wrote a Soduko solver in Java. Works great, except I have to edit the source file to change the input because I could never get Swing to work like my mental model said it should. Cut ...

So I've got my JFrame, and it contains an OpenGL canvas, which has to be set and resized based on pixel dimensions. I'd like to be able to resize the whole window, but I need to know the dimensions of ...