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JDNC simplifies Java UI development

Open source API adds components, aids data-centric development

Jack Li Guojie (jackliguojie@hotmail.com), Java developer
Jack Li Guojie
Jack Li Guojie is an independent Java developer who has been building various types of Java applications since 1998. His areas of interest and experience include artificial intelligence, user interfacing, Web applications, and enterprise system architecture. He has contributed articles to many leading software journals. He is the author of the book Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace (2005, Wrox).

Summary:  JDNC is an open source project that aims to make Java™ UI development easier. It offers a number of prebuilt components that provide functionality that many developers have to laboriously add to their Swing widgets. But perhaps more interestingly, it also provides data binding features that might change the way you link your data to your interfaces. In this hands-on tutorial, Java UI developer Jack Li Guojie guides you through using JDNC Swing Extensions to improve your Java UI without changing much of your existing code. You'll also see how to simplify your data-centric Java UI development by taking advantage of JDNC data binding and the DataSet API.

Date:  27 Sep 2005
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1138 KB | 56 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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In this tutorial, we discussed many of the ways in which the JDNC API can simply your Java UI development. Without extensive changes to your existing code, you can simply improve your UI using the JDNC Swing extensions. The JDNC Components further simplify your tasks by implementing many commonly used functions. Next, you saw how to perform data binding with the JDNC API, and what the advantages were. Last, but not least, we covered the JDNC DataSet API, which bridges the data between the database and our data binding.

Thanks to JXTable, we can stop reinventing the wheel by implementing table sorting and highlighting functions over and over again. With the data binding mechanism in JDNC, creating data-centric applications becomes a breeze. I hope that the JDNC project will continue to advance, bringing us us more exciting features to simplify our programming lives further.

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