While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java 1.0 to its origins in the JavaBeans component model and AWT, he reveals an initialization bug in a commonly used start-up pattern.

In real life components grow even bigger as developers have to handle many cases omitted in book examples. Problem #1: Application components mix many unrelated things in a single component class, ...

In July, while the JSF project was still underway, Hutchinson noticed that Canoo Engineering AG, a Swiss company that offers a server-side API to Java Swing components (text boxes, buttons, other ...

This article explains a simple way of automating Java Swing application acceptance tests, starting from Swing components' unit tests and extending them to acceptance tests without human intervention.