The add method, as its name suggests, adds any component to the container. This is the programmatic way of dropping a control onto the design surface in the designer. Of course it ignores the small ...

What's the preferred toolkit/environment for creating GUI apps in Java nowadays? I've got a project coming up that requires a cross-platform GUI, and Java has already been pitched as the language ...

When I startup Tomcat, it creates an org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap java GUI instance. If I quit that, then tomcat dies. (I would think this is a common problem, but search isn't turning ...

If you’ve ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you’ve already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for ...

You understand the basics of domain-specific languages and now you’re ready to begin creating and refining them for your projects. In this third article in his series Venkat Subramaniam shows you how ...