Currently, GNOME's Java bindings consist of four libraries—libgconf-java, libglade-java, libgnome-java and libgtk-java. libgtk-java and libgnome-java provide the GUI components of the bindings.

A fairly complex custom component class usually takes somewhere between 4 and 8 pages of Java code. In real life components grow even bigger as developers have to handle many cases omitted in book ...

There's a lot of excitement in the Java community regarding the latest long-term support JDK release. When that release debuts, Java developers will be welcomed with the familiar Hello World program ...