Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its original ideals: a powerful, attractive, full-fledged windowing toolkit independent of ...

I'm learning Java by writing a Mandelbrot program. I can draw the image, then use the mouse to choose an area to magnify. Works great, except... When I choose the area to magnify (mouse down, move ...

I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up with ...