
Learn how to install the window builder in Eclipse by using Help > Install New Software, selecting Swing Designer, and restarting Eclipse to enable Swing GUI development.
Create your first Java GUI project using design and source views to add a button and text field. Wire an action to show a message dialogue on click.
Develop a practical Java graphical user interface using Swing for simple addition and subtraction, featuring input text fields, a results display, and robust integer validation with event-driven actions.
Build a simple date and time clock in a Java Swing GUI, displaying current time and date with a digital clock and updating every second.
Build a Java Swing calculator from basic to advanced, implementing decimal precision, backspace functionality, and chained operations, while following a step-by-step environment setup.
Design view and build a simple calculator GUI in Java Swing using absolute layout, a display text field, and digit buttons for operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Activate the calculator's numeric buttons by wiring action handlers to update the text display with pressed digits, including the dot, and prepare for adding operational keys later.
Activate the calculator operational keys and backspace, configure display handling, and implement plus, minus, multiply, divide, and equals logic while clarifying global versus local variables.
Activate operational keys for plus, minus, multiply, divide, and equals; update the text display and verify calculator results in a standalone Java GUI project.
Build a complete hotel management system desktop app in Java Swing, with a menu bar, itemized orders, delivery options, room selection, currency converter, and receipts.
Create a hotel management system project in Java Swing, design the user interface in design view, adjust the layout and absolute levels, and tune fonts, borders, and menus.
Learn to build a Java Swing menu bar for a hotel management system, add menus and dropdown items, customize properties, and implement currency conversion, total calculation, and an exit option.
Create a calculator and a receipt tab for the hotel management system, adjusting panels, fonts, and absolute layouts to ensure the two sections work together.
Designs a Java Swing menu, quantity and price tabs by adding labeled fields, combo boxes for drinks, text fields for quantity, and price calculations with delivery and tax options.
Implement a currency converter panel in a Java Swing HMS project, with country selection, an amount input text field, and a convert result display plus submit and reset controls.
Design the cost area in a Java Swing GUI to display subtotal, tax, total, delivery, and room costs, and align and rename variables for clarity.
This lecture demonstrates renaming fields and labels in a Java Swing GUI, updating text fields, combo boxes, and cost calculations for items like fried rice, chicken, and drinks.
Assemble and test the HMS calculator in a new Java Swing project by updating variables, wiring numeric keys and backspace, copying components, and preparing for quantity and pricing features.
activate the submit button while stepping through drinks and meals, calculating drink price, meal total, delivery, and tax, and displaying the final total with three-decimal formatting.
Activate the reset button to clear all inputs and restore the form to its default state, returning text fields and selections to their initial values.
Continue building the Java Swing currency converter by declaring exchange rates and converting input to the selected currency, with country selection and a reset button.
Learn to use the receipt tab to print receipts, calculate item totals and tax, and display the invoice for fried rice, chicken, and drinks.
Conclude the hotel management system project by adding a live clock, validating date-time display, and reviewing room pricing and receipts to reinforce Java Swing GUI skills.
Celebrate completing the Java Swing bootcamp and becoming a better developer through Java programming and awesome projects.
Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs.
Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). Swing provides a look and feel that emulates the look and feel of several platforms, and also supports a pluggable look and feel that allows applications to have a look and feel unrelated to the underlying platform. It has more powerful and flexible components than AWT. In addition to familiar components such as buttons, check boxes and labels, Swing provides several advanced components such as tabbed panel, scroll panes, trees, tables, and lists.
Unlike AWT components, Swing components are not implemented by platform-specific code. Instead, they are written entirely in Java and therefore are platform-independent.
Swing introduced a mechanism that allowed the look and feel of every component in an application to be altered without making substantial changes to the application code. The introduction of support for a pluggable look and feel allows Swing components to emulate the appearance of native components while still retaining the benefits of platform independence. Originally distributed as a separately downloadable library, Swing has been included as part of the Java Standard Edition since release 1.2. The Swing classes and components are contained in the javax.swing package hierarchy.
In this course, we covered the following:
How to setup window builder
How to build your first Java Swing application
How to build a simple calculator application using Java swing technology
How to build a simple clock application using Java swing technology
How to build advance calculator project from scratch
How to build a complete Hotel Management System application from scratch using Java swing technology