The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs) has lately become a hot topic in the Java community. In addition to new technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), MacroMedia Flex, and ...

Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

The controller handles incoming requests and puts any data the client needs into a component called a model. When the controller's work is done, the model is passed to a view component for rendering.

Swing itself is based on this pattern, and everyone who has worked with Struts, a popular framework for building Web applications, knows the theory behind MVC. This article shows how to enhance MVC by ...