This is the 5th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series. The previous posts of this series were dedicated to frameworks that were pretty similar to each other. This week’s post is dedicated to Jet Compose for Desktop, the new kid on the block that offers an original approach.
This article looks thread management in a Swing GUI. There's more to success than simply spinning up background threads for long-running operations: you need to get the results of these operations back to the user, control the sequencing of not-quite-independent operations, and provide feedback to the user while the operation is running.