Building a Java Desktop Database Application
Building a Java Desktop Database Application
This tutorial shows how to create a desktop Java application through which you can access and update a database. The tutorial takes advantage of support in NetBeans IDE 6.0 for the following technologies:
- The Java Persistence API, which helps you use Java code to interact with databases.
- Beans Binding (JSR-295), which provides a way for different JavaBeans components to have property values that are synchronized with each other. For example, you can use beans binding to keep the values of cells in a JTable visual component in synch with the values of fields in an entity class. (In turn, the entity class represents columns of a database table.)
- The Swing Application Framework (JSR-296), which provides some useful building blocks for quickly creating desktop applications.
We will create a database CRUD (create, read, update, delete) application with a custom component used for visualizing the data (car design preview).
This tutorial was written to work with the NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview (Milestone 9) build.
