July 2, 2004

ince Sun Microsystems released the first version of Java, the industry has been displeased with the way Java’s front-end development toolkit works. Though Swing appeased some developers with its look-and-feel, the interfaces one could build with it still lacked the right look and its performance did not meet the requirements

ava is everywhere. So declared Sun Microsystems and many other industry heavyweights at this week’s JavaOne Developer Conference. From mobile devices, to dashboard computers in cars, and even to interplanetary exploration devices (NASA’s Mars Rover), virtually every computing platform uses Java in one form or another. While you would expect