Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 21. JFC and the Swing Package

• Java Foundation Classes

• All About Controls (JComponents)

• Swing Threads—A Caution!

• Swing Components

• More About Swing Components

• Further Reading

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—The Bible Code

In Chapter 19, we saw that the basic idea behind Java GUI programs is that you:

• Declare controls. You can subclass them to add to the behavior, but this is often unnecessary.

• Implement an interface to get the event-handler that responds to control activity.

• Add the controls to a container. Again, subclassing is possible but frequently unnecessary.

That chapter explained how to handle the events that controls generate. This chapter dives ...