Java Programming with J2SE 5: Basic GUI Development in Java

Course details

To demonstrate how to build GUI applications using the Swing API

• Overview of Swing and the JFC
• associate the components of the Swing architecture with their corresponding functionality, and identify the guidelines associated with using Swing's components.
• Swing components and containers
• specify the code to create and use the containers required for a Swing application in a given scenario.
• Creating a simple Swing application
• set up and display Swing container objects in a specific Swing application and launch that application.
• Basic Swing components
• specify the code used to create labels, text, buttons, and menus for a given application.
• Handling events in Swing
• implement an event handler for a specific event in a given scenario.
• Using Swing layout managers
• specify the code involved in using Swing's layout manager classes to display and arrange components in an application.
• Painting Swing components
• identify the guidelines associated with painting in Swing and AWT.
• Handling events and laying out a Swing application
• write the code involved in handling events for Swing components and displaying these components in a GUI application.