Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

One of the favorite, most effective means of helping users accomplish their goals is to use 'wizards': step-by-step, fill-in-the-blank guides that can lead users gently toward getting the job done.

However, many in the Java community criticize Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and Swing. Swing doesn’t offer much help in creating a high-level Model-View-Controller (MVC) client architecture.