Borland® JBuilder™ Developer’s Guide

In Practice

Now that we have looked at Swing components and how to use them in JBuilder, let’s build a Swing-based user interface for the ChalkTalk application.

Chapter 4, “Modeling,” introduced the UML diagrams for the various tiers of the ChalkTalk application. The diagram for the User Services tier is reproduced in Figure 11.10.

Figure 11.10. The User Services Tier classes and methods for the ChalkTalk application.

For now, we will create the basic framework of the application and support the browseCourses and browseCourse operations.

To give you an idea of where we are going, here is a summarized list of all the steps we will perform in ...