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Swing is an older toolkit, developed long before the advent of
beautiful user interfaces, and it's missing some of the components
you might need for
building rich UIs. Fortunately, open source projects like Substance,
SwingX, and the
Java™ Look-and-Feel Graphics Repository make up the difference.
Author Steven Haines shows you how to painlessly add tree tables, syntax
highlighting, and more to your Swing UIs.
User interface design and development have changed a lot in recent years, and some would say the Java platform hasn't really kept up. Swing, released in 1997, is still the standard toolkit for building user interfaces into the JVM. On the upside, it's a familiar standard and easy to work with; on the downside, it's missing some features that have become common to rich UI design. more...
User interface design and development have changed a lot in recent years, and some would say the Java platform hasn't really kept up. Swing, released in 1997, is still the standard toolkit for building user interfaces into the JVM. On the upside, it's a familiar standard and easy to work with; on the downside, it's missing some features that have become common to rich UI design. more...
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