Even a developer testing enthusiast like Alex Ruiz had to admit GUI testing was hard, so he created FEST, the functional library for test-driven GUI development. This follow-up to Alex's JavaOne ...

As much as I love writing Java GUIs, I'd have to say use a C++ library. You will experience much anguish in using JNI, although tools like JNI++ and Jace may help communicating between the two.

“When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI.