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 ...

The Eclipse frameworks provide a Java alternative to building robust, responsive, and great-looking desktop applications. In this excerpt from Enterprise Java Development on a Budget, authors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...