If you’re faced with creating a Swing-based wizard from scratch, you’ll want to know about Tim Boudreau’s Wizard project. This installment of Jeff Friesen’s Open source Java projects ...

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.

Open source licenses Each of the open source Java projects covered in this series is subject to a license, which you should understand before integrating the project with your own projects.

Until recently, it has been quite difficult to create Java based tray icons applications. JavaSE 6 (aka Mustang) now supports tray icon development with the TrayIcon API.

The new Java EE security API promises to deliver on features such as app portability across Java EE servers and when using modern programming concepts.

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.