I'm doing some Java stuff with school, and I was wondering if it's possible to create a console gui, in Java? I'm not getting much with google, as I'm not sure what "this" is called.Basicly, we ...

Rethinking the Java GUI. analysis. Oct 22, 2002 4 mins. Software Development. Will Java fulfill its original mission? Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck.

In fact, Java's ability to create cross-platform desktop apps was one of the language's biggest selling features when it was released in 1995. However, as Java evolved and changed throughout the years ...

While you can build Java applet GUIs using Sun's Swing the results are usually rather ugly and clunky looking. There's also the problem that quite a bit of programming effort will be required for ...