Foundation classes are just what the name says, the very foundation on which information technology (IT) professionals are creating their next generation of enterprises to run business systems.

Java Foundation Classes (JFC) offer a rich selection of components for building smart and interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs). You can display tabular data using the javax.swing.JTable class.

First published 2 April, 1997. Java applications are about to get Office-ised. Sun, Netscape and IBM said yesterday they are collaborating on making Java applets share a common user interface (UI) ...

AWT: Abstract Windowing Toolkit, the part of Java that gives programmers the language’s graphical user interface (GUI). CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture, a standard for communicating ...

NetBeans IDE 3.6, a major revision to the open-source platform, is now available, adding improved windowing and debugging and backing for J2EE 1.4. The platform is intended to enable development of ...

The next version of Microsoft?s J++ development toolset will be launched later this month with a Windows Foundation Class (WFC) of ready-made components.