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 ...

I had been working at Sun Microsystems for just over a year when the mandate came from on high to switch to Java. In those days, you could become a Java expert in a scant few months, and we did, ...

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Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Ever since I was introduced to Infobus from the early days of Java, I have been a big fan of bus-based architecture. What is bus-based architecture? Let me explain this by way of an example. In a ...