An example of the magic of java. It has an excellent widget toolkit too! Study the beautiful image below for an example of what it can accomplish.
When selecting Plot > Plot Builder > Options the gui hanged like this with no way to restore the program, the x buttons had no effect, and no other input had an effect. I was left to close the process and lose my changes to the .mw file. It's running on XP 64-bit.
My suggestion is that you make a non-java interface for the maple server. For example with a wrapper-type toolkit like wxwidgets that doesn't have the flaws and the slowness of swing.
