Introduction to making user interfaces in Java

This is a very brief introduction to making user interfaces in Java using Swing. In this section we will learn:

• The JFrame class and making a simple frame in Java
• Handling UI events
• Events
• Listeners
• Adapters
  
• Brief introduction to Layout managers
• FlowLayout
• BorderLayout
• GridLayout
• BoxLayout
• Using other components like Buttons, TextBoxes, TextAreas, and ScrollPanes
• Java Beans
• What makes a class a Java Bean?
• public default constructor
• naming convention for property getter/setter methods
• naming convention for methods that add event listeners
• The manifest.mf file should contain the line Java-Bean: True