Database application development is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. Distributed application development is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise.
The first step when creating an application in JBuilder is to set up the framework for the application. You can use JBuilder's visual design tools to quickly create the application structure and, in future steps of this tutorial, to read data from the text file and to develop the user interface.
To create the application structure,
TextDataFile.jpr
.
Now that the basic project structure is created, open the Application wizard to create a new Java application shell which contains a Frame that will be the UI container.
Application1.java
and Frame1.java
files are added to the project and are displayed in the project pane (top left pane.) Frame1.java
is opened by default in the content pane with its Source tab selected, and its structure displayed in the structure pane (bottom left pane.)
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