Get clued in to lesser known open source Java projects that can save you time and money -- starting this month with Bernhard Pauler's balloontip project for Swing GUI development.

IBM’s alphaWorks project offers a GUI remoting library called Remote Abstract Window Toolkit [3], originally for AWT and then more recently updated for Swing.

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 ...

We have reservations about Java, particularly for GUI work. There’s a lot to like about Swing’s engineering. ... (IDE) bogs down when managing a large GUI project on midlevel equipment.

OpenJDK and OpenJFX, the open source GitHub projects where Java and JavaFX have evolved, follow the same release cycle with two new versions per year (in March and September). Version 23 is the ...