How to make industry standard desktop Java applications? [closed]

Answer 1

This is the most-read tutorial on Swing without a doubt. Run through the tutorial from beginning to end if you have time, to learn the Swing way of doing things.

At the same time, try to locate a copy of JBuilder to see the template code that it creates for Swing apps. You will code by hand using Eclipse or whatever, but JBuilder can show you some standard ways of doing things. If you can't get a copy, check out some of the Swing plugins for Eclipse. In all cases, try to keep in touch with the code yourself: most UI editors are only helpful in the suggestions they give you.

Answer 2

Run through the tutorial suggested by yar. I'd also recommend the excellent book, "Filthy Rich Clients" by Romain Guy and Chet Haase (two big names in the Swing world). It'll teach you to make apps that look great.

Answer 3

I haven't worked with it much, but the Griffon project is attempting to standardize the MVC pattern for Swing applications. However, it's written in the Groovy scripting language, which then runs on the JVM.