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 ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was ...

Hi guys,<br><br>I'm writing a custom JDialog window by extending the JDialog class. All good so far. However, there is one problem that bothers me: The components won't display until I manually resize ...

Note: Click here to download the source code for this article. When developing Java code using a GUI component I have never used, I like to experiment by writing small sample programs, exploring the ...