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Quickly Enclosing Components in a Container
In the first comment on my last post, I was asked why there isn't a separate JPanel generated for both the master and detail views in NetBeans' Java Desktop Application template. In the process of...
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Input on a New Desktop Java Database Tutorial
Recently I've found time again to work on actual tutorials. I don't have anything written yet, but I have something resembling a plan, which you can find here:...
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Beans Binding Between Separate Forms
Continuing from my last post, I'll show the next steps in the creation of this simple (but not too simple) client purchase application. This time, our main focus is in creating a separate dialog which...
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Binding JComboBox's Elements and Selected Item
This is part 3 in a series of posts that I'm doing to show how to use beans binding and JPA to create a Java desktop database application. In this installment, I concentrate on combo boxes, namely how...
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Passing Dialog Input to the Main View and Database
This is the fourth in a series of posts on creating a Java database application. In my last few posts, I started with skeleton code generated by the IDE and provided my own customizations, including...
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Using Beans Binding to Search in a Table
Now and again someone will ask me how you can search records in a desktop database app. Here's a reasonably simple way to do so, using mechanisms that exist in Swing and the Beans Binding library. We...
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JTable Detail Based on JComboBox Selection
Another question that has come up in the course of my recent postings is how to bind a combo box selection to a JTable's elements (so that the rows of the table are determined by the selected item of...
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I have published a draft of an extended tutorial on creating desktop Java applications on netbeans.org. The tutorial is based on my recent series of blog posts. Thanks to everybody who provided...
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De-modalizing the Customer Records App
I'm back from vacation and (almost) back up to speed, so it's time to resume with my semi-regular posting. Soon, I'd like to show an example of a many-to-many relationship and other examples with...
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A Personal Data Storage Application With Embedded Java DB
Apologies in advance to those of you expecting a weightier post. Unfortunately, I've been busy lately, I haven't had time to come up with working examples of applications that handle things like...
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