Why should JS coders have all the fun?

I haven't seen anybody write new Swing GUIs like he did in quite some time. First of all, you don't have to declare the listeners on the form class, and you typically would create an anonymous that listens to each component.<p>Second, there is a library called swixml (<a href="http://www.swixml.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swixml.org/</a>) which allows you to write the GUI part of the code in a declarative manner and have the library wire the two things together.<p>Both makes it much less of a pita to write GUIs in Java.

Even in java ecosystem, there are several tools that make gui desing easier: Swing builder in groovy (<a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/Swing+Builder" rel="nofollow">http://groovy.codehaus.org/Swing+Builder</a>), Scala Swing Dsl (<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1570175/scala-and-swing-gui-applications" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1570175/scala-and-swing-g...</a>), Cheri for jruby (<a href="http://objectmix.com/ruby/251973-cheri-builder-style-jruby-swing-gui-development.html" rel="nofollow">http://objectmix.com/ruby/251973-cheri-builder-style-jruby-s...</a>), and the list goes on.<p>But it's good to see the effort on Java as well, which can do DSLs as well, even those these are easier on languages that actively support them, such as scala, groovy, ruby, clojure, ...

As a Java-for-pay programmer, I'm not extremely experienced in the Java ecosystem; why use Swing to make a GUI instead of using HTML?

Ugh, casting.<p>Is the use of generics in Java still not common?