List of Tutorials
Basic tutorials
Building an application - Create a "Hello World" application.
Building an applet - Create an AWT applet.
Text editor - Create a real application to load, edit, and save text files.
Nested layouts - Design a user interface with nested panels and layouts.
Compiling, running, and debugging - Find and fix syntax errors, compiler errors, and debugger errors.
GridBagLayout tutorial - Learn how to use GridBagLayout. Create a GridBagLayout UI container in the UI designer.
Note: The GridBagLayout Tutorial contains animations which must be viewed in a JavaScript enabled browser, such as Netscape, or Internet Explorer. A browser version of the JBuilder documentation is available in the JBuilder /doc
directory. For directions on viewing the documentation in a browser, see "How to get Help" in Getting Started.
Database tutorials
Available in JBuilder Professional and Enterprise
Database tutorial - Steps you through creating a basic database application and user interface
(UI) using the JBuilder design tools to read data from a text file.
Connecting to a database using InterClient JDBC drivers - Set up InterClient, and use it to connect to an SQL database.
Providing data from a source
Adding a Database component to your application
Querying a database using the JBuilder UI
Parameterizing a query
Obtaining data using a stored procedure
Importing data from a text file
Manipulating data locally
Adding and removing filters
Locating data with a JdbNavField
Creating a calculated column in the UI designer
Aggregating data with calculated fields
Creating a lookup using a calculated column
Data entry with a picklist
Building an application with a JdbStatusLabel
component
Creating a master-detail relationship
Resolving data back to the source
Saving changes from a QueryDataSet
Saving changes using a QueryResolver
Saving changes with a ProcedureResolver
Exporting data to a text file
Using patterns for exporting numeric, date/time, and text fields
JDataStore tutorials
DataStore fundamentals
Connecting to a database using the JDataStore JDBC driver
Creating a basic JDBC application using JDataStore
Enterprise tutorials
Available in JBuilder Professional and Enterprise
Creating a Java RMI-based distributed application in JBuilder
Creating a servlet using the Servlet Wizard
Remote debugging
Available in JBuilder Enterprise
Using CVS Version Control in JBuilder
Creating a CORBA application using JBuilder
Creating an HTML client application from IDL
Creating JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Creating a servlet using the Servlet Wizard
Generating IIOP interfaces running java2iiop
Using rmi-iiop
Generating IDL interfaces from Java using java2idl
OpenTools tutorials
Adding an editor statistics OpenTool to the Tools menu - Add an OpenTool to a JBuilder menu
Adding a file node type and a viewer - Create a new file node type and a viewer to display files of that type. The tutorial also shows you how to add a component to the structure pane and how to add menu items to context menus.