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Putting Things Together—Adding a Table Model to the Address Book Application

In this section, we'll add a table model to the address book application and “swingify” some of the application's AWT ways.

AWT to JFC The first time I wrote the address book application, I used all of the old AWT components (java.awt.Frame, java.awt.Panel, etc.). When I modified it, only 12 lines out of 114 had to be changed, and 9 of those dealt with JList. The point is that the move from List to JList changed a lot, although most of the changes weren't needed. Other JFC/AWT components map nicely even though they're not closely related on the class hierarchy. Luckily, JList is the exception, not the rule. Up to now what we've seen of JFC/Swing is pretty much the same ...