GUI testing is a hard and often neglected task. We take a look at two open source solutions for writing SWT and Swing tests, SWTBot and Marathon, and how they can be used from JRuby. We talked to Keta ...

In a nutshell, Eclipse is a modern version of Emacs, the popular programmer's editor. Emacs is popular because it has been customized for just about any programming language on earth. However, the ...

In this article you learned how to build a commercial-quality GUI application using Java and the Eclipse GUI APIs. SWT and JFace provide a viable alternative to AWT and Swing for certain types of ...

Google is announcing on Wednesday its donation of GUI designer technology to the Eclipse Foundation, a contribution that an Eclipse official said could lead to the emergence of mobile GUI builders ...

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the launch of the Indigo release train. The coordinated release includes 62 projects with over 400 individual developers. Read the whole story ...

The support for Swing in Eclipse 3.0 should quiet critics who accused IBM when Eclipse was released of trying to leapfrog existing Java standards for GUI development by inventing SWT instead of ...

A preview of Genuitec's Matisse4MyEclipse GUI Builder plug-in is available for developers. Matisse4MyEclipse is based on the GUI Builder feature recently released in NetBeans 5.0, which was codenamed ...

We are looking at using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform for a desktop application and want to know what options are available for user interface development. The Sun Netbeans environment provides ...

This release is an enterprise Java, database, RAD, UML, POJO, AJAX, and rich-client development environment certified on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Among the notable features of this release is its ...