Java GUI Development: The Authoritative Solution

Chapter 10. Models

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Identifying and Targeting Abstractions

• Utilizing the MVC Paradigm

• The Swing Model Architecture

• Swing Model Anatomy

• Swing Models and Their Related Types

• Swing Models

• Defining Your Own Models

Now that you have a command of the pragmatics needed to write GUI programs using the JFC, this chapter will examine one particularly ubiquitous and fundamental feature of the Swing architecture and APIs, namely, the Swing model architecture.

You already know the importance of understanding the paradigms of any programming environment; it's important to use tools in accordance with their design. The Swing model architecture is one such paradigm. Understanding how to use it properly will help you understand the JFC toolkit better and ...