In a world where Web-based applications have dominated the discourse lately, does the desktop still matter? Presenters at the appropriately named Desktop Matters conference in San Jose, Calif. argued ...

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Aternity has updated its application monitoring platform so that it can monitor Ajax-styled Web applications as well as 64-bit Java desktop applications, the company announced Tuesday. Aternity’s ...

Java’s “official”, built-in UI toolkit, Swing, has had a difficult time over the years. It’s been derided as being slow, ugly and difficult to work with - which was true about 5 years ago. However ...

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 ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003--ReportingEngines(TM), a division of Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTUE) and leading provider of embedded reporting solutions for J2EE Web and ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company quietly ...

Presenters at the appropriately named conference in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday afternoon argued that it does. Billed as “The Conference for Java Desktop Application Developers,” the event focuses ...