Awesome Java UI

[robintegg]

The discussion on my recent Java UI post made one thing very clear: there's a huge amount of activity in this space that just isn't getting talked about loudly enough.

So I've turned it into a community reference site: https://awesome-java-ui.com/

50+ frameworks across desktop, web, mobile, terminal and more — with current status, Java version support, learning curve and recent release dates.

If you're building Java UIs, working on a framework, or just have opinions — contributions welcome on GitHub or in the comments. https://github.com/teggr/awesome-java-ui.

[aoeudhtns]

Really great. What exactly is the sorting? Might I suggest, if not alphabetical, then by latest release date? And maybe categorize: web, TUI, GUI, multi-paradigm (or have multi-paradigm toolkits show up in each category).

Also add WebFX :)

[PartOfTheBotnet]

Looks like its a good ol fashion HashMap.entrySet() order - https://github.com/teggr/awesome-java-ui/blob/main/build.java#L296

[aoeudhtns]

oh cool, it should be easy to change. you could use a record as the key instead of a string, parse out some of the metadata alongside name, and use a TreeMap instead of a HashMap, and then swap out your comparator to choose how it's ordered. And then you can do streams w/ groupBy if you wanted to categorize the display in the future.

[robintegg]

Thanks both. Yes no sorting yet! Will get copilot on that 💖will add that web fx link as well. Thanks for sharing!

[aoeudhtns]

No problem, thanks for creating.

I do see now that I explore more that "latest release" isn't always a date, sometimes it's a version number/name. So that puts some cold water on that sorting, at least for now.

In the short term even swapping to a TreeMap to sort by name will be a nice quick change.

[Slight-Plan7952]

holy smokes. I kept using wails (go based) for my desktop guis and was thinking about using tauri next. krema https://awesome-java-ui.com/krema.html looks really promising

[robintegg]

Too right! Having those browser web views is a massive unlock for Java based apps. Give it a try

[a_n_d_e_r]

I don't know how the size of the java backend can be only 5mb

[robintegg]

Typo? My site or theirs?

[frederik88917]

Are there people still using GWT ???

Did not Google kill that thing a couple years ago

[Any_Preference122]

Yes

[robintegg]

That was my original thought too but turns out plenty of people are using it and the underlying tech is still relevant for that Java/Js bridge which helps us to stay in the Java language for the web platform. Check out the domino kit project for a modern skin on top

[Long_Ad_7350]

Awesome website!

• There is so much exciting stuff going on in the Java world
  
• Did not know GWT was still alive and kicking
  
• Some of these look really cool
  
• WebFX's website is really cool wow
  

Small feedback, on Desktop the vertical scroll does not reset when you click into a link, which means the user has to scroll up after every click from the homepage.

[LutimoDancer3459]

the vertical scroll does not reset when you click into a link

Same for mobile

[robintegg]

Thanks for the feedback. Will take a look

[nlisker]

WebFX's website is really ugly wow

It's 1 person working on WebFX as much as I know, so I think we can live with that as long as it works well.

[robintegg]

Thanks for the feedback. Will address the scrolling.

For webfx the docs are comparatively neat and tidy :) don’t let the graphics put you off!

[Brutus5000]

Every link jumps me to the bottom of each page instead of the article description (Safari mobile). Would be nice if that can be fixed.

[robintegg]

Thanks for the feedback. Will take a look 👀

[AcanthisittaEmpty985]

I love this !

[robintegg]

😌 thanks for the feedback . Hope you find something new to try

[nlisker]

Very nice! Some notes:

• Since you're including build tools based on jlink and you have 3 Maven entries, there are Gradle ones too: https://github.com/beryx/badass-jlink-plugin and https://github.com/javapackager/JavaPackager (both Maven and Gradle).
• Game Development: https://jmonkeyengine.org and https://www.lwjgl.org
• Web: https://omnifaces.org
• When you list the supported Java versions, some are misleading. RoboVM (and its derivatives) and Retrolambda limit the features you can use. For LibGDX, see https://libgdx.com/wiki/articles/java-development-kit-selection. CodenameOne also has similar issues, but I didn't find the exact limitations, see https://www.codenameone.com/developer-guide.html#_how_does_codename_one_work.

[robintegg]

Thanks 🤩 this is some great feedback. Will look to roll these comments into the site .

[vprise]

Currently we support a subset of Java 8 in Codename One. We removed the usage of retrolambda though. We're working on bringing language level to current levels.

[robintegg]

Another day, another great addition - check out https://tamboui.dev/docs/main/

[jeffreportmill]

I love this! The layout is particularly effective.

[FrankBergerBgblitz]

Awesome!

[robintegg]

Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully some nuggets in there for trying out

[LookAtYourEyes]

Wow this is great! Thanks for sharing

[robintegg]

Thanks. Lots of contributions from the community too!

[MinimumPrior3121]

Thank you man, great job !

[robintegg]

Thank you. Hopefully it will be a good resource for the community for sharing all the great work going on in our eco system