:: Readme :: Swing Suite 1.9.1 RC ::

Create sophisticated, professional and rich user interfaces

The JGoodies Swing Suite provides components and solutions that complement Swing to solve common user interface tasks. It advocates a UI production process that lets you save time and money while ensuring consistent and elegant design.

The Swing Suite requires Java 5 or later, and it is assumed that you are familiar with general Java issues and basic Swing concepts.

Getting Started

Before you start, we recommend to look at Skeleton Pro or JDiskReport. It is an easy way to understand what the Suite is about. Then read and follow the Quick Start that will guide you through the essential parts of the Suite.

The best example for getting acquainted with the Swing Suite is the Skeleton Pro example application. It has been build for learning purposes and demonstrates most components of the Swing Suite in real-life use.

There's a step-by-step instruction for setting up the Skeleton Pro project in Eclipse. These instructions are useful for other example apps and different IDEs. And there's a pre-configured Eclipse project for Skeleton Pro 1.9.6 including sources and resources.

Distribution Contents

The Swing Suite consists of the libraries and examples as listed in the side bar on the left-hand side of this page. These parts are reflected in the file structure: each part has a folder and comes with a Readme file that provides more information.

Support

The Swing Suite comes with 60 day mail and phone support; this is just the official deadline, you may contact us later.

The Suite now ships with tutorials for the basic libraries Looks, Forms, Binding, Validation, and Animation. The primary "tutorial" for the UIF and UIF Extras is the Skeleton Pro application. Besides that you can find presentation about essential Swing issues at our articles page.

The Suite is about saving production time, hence, you shouldn't hesitate to contact us if you have any question regarding the code or how to migrate to the UI and coding styles the framework advocates.