Take Away:

• Develop GUI application using Swing components like JFrame, JTable, JTree, JFileChooser
• Use different layout managers in the application
• Use listeners with the components

Pre-requisites:

• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented concepts
• Experience with Java programming language & JDBC API

Course Details

Introduction

• Introduction to GUI programming
• GUI component libraries provided by Java
• Introduction to AWT components
• Callback mechanism
• Sample program

Swing

• Introduction to Swing components
• Swing and Java Foundation Classes(JFC)
• Difference between AWT and Swing
• Swing component hierarchy
• Layered architecture of Swing components
• Pluggable look and feel

Delegation Event Model

• Event handling
• Event Source, Event listeners, Event
• Delegation event model
• Components and associated events

Layout Managers

• Need for Layout managers
• Different Layout managers and their characteristics
• Border, Box, Spring, Flow, Grid, Gridbag Layouts

Advanced Swing components

• MVC architecture
• MVC in Swing
• JTree, JTable, JFileChooser, JColorChooser
• Drag and Drop

Concurrency in Swing

• Concurrent behavior of Swing components
• Event dispatch thread
• Write Swing application with correct mechanism

Internationalization

• Introduction to internationalization and localization
• MessageBundles
• Use internationalization in Swing applications