Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: ...

The add method, as its name suggests, adds any component to the container. This is the programmatic way of dropping a control onto the design surface in the designer. Of course it ignores the small ...

When I startup Tomcat, it creates an org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap java GUI instance. If I quit that, then tomcat dies. (I would think this is a common problem, but search isn't turning ...

If you are writing your own game, sooner or later you will need some sort of user interface (or graphic user interface = GUI). There are some existing libraries lying around. Probably the most famous ...

In this chapter of Modern Java we get to grips with the idea of a container that is used to host components to build a user interface. We also find out how the Swing GUI Builder generates code to make ...