Java has been in the news a lot lately, and not for good reasons. Critical security flaws have allowed hackers to take complete control of PCs, and in-the-wild attacks exposed a problem Oracle went ...

Java’s “official”, built-in UI toolkit, Swing, has had a difficult time over the years. It’s been derided as being slow, ugly and difficult to work with - which was true about 5 years ago. However ...

The rise of the Internet and the Web browser as the universal computing client forced user-interface development and the overall user experience to take a step backwards. Web applications, due to ...

"For the first time we'd like to go on record in favor of open-sourcing J2SE, and we've been working behind the scenes on this," said BEA CTO Scott Dietzen in his conference keynote Wednesday ...