I'm building an app in Java ( using Swing, and no I don't intend to use SWT ) and have a couple "inspector" windows. For reference, I'm a long-time Mac lover/programmer/user and I *like* multi window ...

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 ...

Almost all modern applications have a splash screen. Using a splash screen is a way to advertise your product. It is also used to indicate to the user that something is happening in your application ...

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 Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...