Currently, GNOME's Java bindings consist of four libraries—libgconf-java, libglade-java, libgnome-java and libgtk-java. libgtk-java and libgnome-java provide the GUI components of the bindings.

A fairly complex custom component class usually takes somewhere between 4 and 8 pages of Java code. In real life components grow even bigger as developers have to handle many cases omitted in book ...

This article explains a simple way of automating Java Swing application acceptance tests, starting from Swing components' unit tests and extending them to acceptance tests without human intervention.