Desktop Java is enjoying a long-overdue renaissance. But for Swing (the Java UI toolkit) to be taken seriously, Sun must pay closer attention to usability.

Swing Features Light Weight − Swing components are independent of native Operating System's API as Swing API controls are rendered mostly using pure JAVA code instead of underlying operating system ...

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Each of examples called the Swing library with fewer lines of code than the Java version. More importantly, the Java.next versions capture the essence of the program with less ceremony.