A framework for Java Swing

I’ve just finished reading a highly interesting interview/article and thought I’d share it. It’s about Java Swing (a common class library for developing Java client/server applications) and it’s lack of a proper application development framework. I’ve had a chat about exactly that with some guys at our local Java User Group the other months and while discussing their issues, I couldn’t help myself thinking that Adobe’s Flex technology is miles ahead of Swing. Just to get a simple data binding done in Swing seems to be a major task…