March 1, 2005

XUI: Finally, a Java GUI Framework You Can Love

March 1, 2005 5:03 am

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

Displaying Real-Time Stock Information Using Multithreading

March 1, 2005 1:03 am

ulti threading is one of the most powerful concepts in programming. Using multithreading, you can break a complex task into multiple threads that execute independently of one another. One particularly good application of multithreading is in tasks that are synchronous in nature, such as Web services calls. By default, Web