Java: A Beginner's Guide, Eighth Edition, 8th Edition

Chapter 16

Introducing Swing

Key Skills & Concepts

●   Know the origins and design philosophy of Swing

●   Understand Swing components and containers

●   Know layout manager basics

●   Create, compile, and run a simple Swing application

●   Learn event handling fundamentals

●   Use JButton

●   Work with JTextField

●   Create a JCheckBox

●   Work with JList

●   Use anonymous inner classes or lambda expressions to handle events

So far, all of the programs in this book have been console-based. This means that they do not make use of a graphical user interface (GUI). Although console-based programs are excellent for teaching the basics of Java ...