The border layout is possibly the most widely used to construct user interfaces as it allows the positioning of items around a central element which will expand to fill the space. To create a border ...

One of the standard layout managers that come with the Java platform is BoxLayout. This allows you to layout a single row or column of components in a container. This may sound like a ...

I had been working at Sun Microsystems for just over a year when the mandate came from on high to switch to Java. In those days, you could become a Java expert in a scant few months, and we did, ...