XUI: Finally, a Java GUI Framework You Can Love

here are many Java user interface toolkits. The most common, of course, are AWT and Swing, each of which has its advantages and drawbacks. Swing in particular, while it looks great, can be burdensome to develop and leads to large code footprints. As an example, Figure 1 shows a very simple Swing GUI developed with the excellent Oracle JDeveloper IDE.

Without any code to activate this GUI and respond to events such as the Button Click, Figure 1 already involves 114 lines of code, including the necessary imports. A snippet of this code is shown below, where you can see that four lines of code alone are needed to describe the button. This verbosity isn't the fault of the IDE—it's just the way that AWT and Swing work, and this IDE uses components from these frameworks as appropriate.

button1.setLabel("btnButton");
button1.setBounds(new Rectangle(240, 55, 110, 25));
button1.setForeground(Color.cyan);
button1.setBackground(Color.magenta);