Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

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 ...

Java technology is based on two main concepts: a programming language and a virtual processor. Once the Java source code is compiled, the binary output – the bytecode – is executed by a standardized ...

I have a program I am writing in C++. While it could easily be a terminal program, I would like to also make some interface windows, nothing spectacular, just a title screen, a window full of command ...

This is likely one of the announcements everyone has been waiting to hear. The question has come up lots in the past while. "When or will BlackBerry ever support OpenGL graphics?" Let us wonder no ...

In a seasonal twist, Microsoft's dev team for Java on Visual Studio Code introduced a special education edition in the February 2022 update, courting educators and students with new functionality as ...

I'm a junior at Penn State and we started using Java. So far it's pretty interesting even though I'm used to C++. I'm a fairly decent programmer, but there's so much to learn...<BR><BR>Two questions..