This practical, interactive, advanced Swing course is aimed at experienced Swing developers who need to accelerate Swing GUI development through the adoption of best practices and techniques and an understanding of the tools available to aid this purpose. During this course you will learn how to further harness the power of the MVC to its' full potential and how to write resuable components.

Introduction
Accelerating Development with Reusable Components

• How to write reusable components
• Design Contracts, Packaging & Refactoring
• A brief review of useful third party libraries and components
• Sample Apps & Demos

The Power of MVC

• Custom components
• Custom events
• Custom layouts
• Advanced JTable Usage
• Rendering
• Stacking Models
• Example: Interactive Charts and Tables

Trees and TreeTables

• Advanced JTable
• Advanced JTree
• TreeTables

Swing Application Cookbook Discussion of approaches to common issues expected to include some or all of:

• Storing users’ personal preferences
• Undo
• Printing
• Threading Issues
• Busy Cursor
• Generating and Parsing of XML configuration files
• How to deal with Exceptions
• Displaying Help and/or Web Pages
• Auto-generating a version number
• Use of Plug-ins