SWING - Overview

Swing API is set of extensible GUI Components to ease developer's life to create JAVA based Front End/ GUI Applications. It is build upon top of AWT API and acts as replacement of AWT API as it has almost every control corresponding to AWT controls. Swing component follows a Model-View-Controller architecture to fulfill the following criterias.

SWING - Environment Setup

This section guides you on how to download and set up Java on your machine. Please follow the following steps to set up the environment.

SWING - Controls

Every user interface considers the following three main aspects:

• UI elements : These are the core visual elements the user eventually sees and interacts with. GWT provides a huge list of widely used and common elements varying from basic to complex which we will cover in this tutorial.
  

Event Handling

What is an Event?

Change in the state of an object is known as event i.e. event describes the change in state of source. Events are generated as result of user interaction with the graphical user interface components.

SWING - Event Classes

The Event classes represent the event. Java provides us various Event classes but we will discuss those which are more frequently used.

SWING - Event Listeners

The Event listener represent the interfaces responsible to handle events. Java provides us various Event listener classes but we will discuss those which are more frequently used. Every method of an event listener method has a single argument as an object which is subclass of EventObject class.

SWING - Event Adapters

Adapters are abstract classes for receiving various events. The methods in these classes are empty. These classes exists as convenience for creating listener objects.

SWING - Layouts

Introduction

Layout means the arrangement of components within the container. In other way we can say that placing the components at a particular position within the container. The task of layouting the controls is done automatically by the Layout Manager.

SWING - Menu Classes

As we know that every top-level window has a menu bar associated with it. This menu bar consist of various menu choices available to the end user. Further each choice contains list of options which is called drop down menus. Menu and MenuItem controls are subclass of MenuComponent class.

SWING - Containers

Containers are integral part of SWING GUI components. A container provides a space where a component can be located. A Container in AWT is a component itself and it adds the capability to add component to itself. Following are noticable points to be considered.

SWING - Quick Guide

SWING - Overview

Swing API is set of extensible GUI Components to ease developer's life to create JAVA based Front End/ GUI Applications. It is build upon top of AWT API and acts as replacement of AWT API as it has almost every control corresponding to AWT controls.

SWING - Useful Resources

The following resources contain additional information on SWING. Please use them to get more in-depth knowledge on this topic.

Discuss SWING

JAVA provides a rich set of libraries to create Graphical User Interface in platform independent way. In this article we'll look in SWING GUI controls.