Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

The presentation layer of Swing-based applications mainly consists of event-handling logic, layout properties, and graphical user interface (GUI) components. While such code should be easy to ...

Get to know the JavaFX 2 libraries by way of a practical exercise: refactoring a Swing-based text editor into one that leverages the rich UI features of JavaFX (Part 2).