However, many in the Java community criticize Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and Swing. Swing doesn’t offer much help in creating a high-level Model-View-Controller (MVC) client architecture.

Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

Java Swing, the Shining Example of Usability? By Matt Stephens; April 14, 2005; Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its ...

But once those decisions are made and the rubber hits the road, they'll likely be leveraging the MVC 1.0 API for developing presentation-tier components, and it's the new Java EE Security API, ...