posted 7 years ago
There are many GUI frameworks out there such as Swing/AWT, JGoodies, SWT/JFaces, JavaFX, SwingX, Apache Pivot, etc.
As for DB besides the tradition relational, other NOSQL DB (besides MongoDB) are worthy looking.
Of course each tool/product has its own learning curve.
K. Tsang CEng MBCS PMP PMI-ACP OCMJEA OCPJP