Chapter 1

Introduction.............................................................................................................................

The JBuilder Companion.................................................................................................

Style and Intended Audience...........................................................................................

Content.......................................................................................................................

The Purpose of the Book.............................................................................................

JBuilder Overview...........................................................................................................

The Myth of the Proprietary Format.............................................................................

Project Management...................................................................................................

A Word about the Editions of JBuilder.........................................................................

About Java......................................................................................................................

The Changing Java Specification..................................................................................

Java Language Lawyers...............................................................................................

This Book and the Java Language................................................................................

JBuilder and Swing......................................................................................................

What Do I Think of Java?............................................................................................

What do I think of Bill and Linus?................................................................................

Contacting Us, The Source Code on the CD....................................................................

I Am Not a Lawyer.........................................................................................................

My – or is it Our -- Writing Style.....................................................................................

1.7 Summary...................................................................................................................

Chapter 2

Setup and Configuration......................................................................................................

Overview........................................................................................................................

Install Overview..............................................................................................................

Hardware Requirements..................................................................................................

Installing the JDK............................................................................................................

The JBuilder Install......................................................................................................

Downloading and Installing JBuilder Personal Edition....................................................

Notes on Installing JBuilder for Windows.....................................................................

Notes on Installing JBuilder on Linux............................................................................

The Alternate Install from a Zip File.............................................................................

Checking to Make Sure Basic Applets and Applications Run...........................................

Configuring JBuilder from the Command Line...................................................................

Getting Memory Set up right............................................................................................

Problems with font.properties..........................................................................................

Using Ant........................................................................................................................

CodeBox........................................................................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 3

Creating a Default Application or Applet..............................................................................

Overview....................................................................................................................

The Steps for Creating a New Project.........................................................................

Optional Step Which Will Facilitate Javadoc Documentation........................................

Creating a New Application.........................................................................................

Creating a New Applet................................................................................................

Viewing Your Applet...................................................................................................

Viewing the Applet Through a Browser........................................................................

Summary.....................................................................................................................

Chapter 4

The AppBrowser: The Core of the IDE...................................................................................

Defining our Terms: The IDE and AppBrowser................................................................

The AppBrowser........................................................................................................

Exploring a Simple Project...............................................................................................

The Message Pane..........................................................................................................

The File View tabs..........................................................................................................

Automation: Creating a Class...........................................................................................

A Glancing Introduction to CodeInsight........................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 5

Chapter 05..............................................................................................................................

JBuilder Product Overview..................................................................................................

The File Menu.................................................................................................................

The Object Gallery - Personal, SE and Enterprise Versions..........................................

The General Page........................................................................................................

The Project Page.........................................................................................................

The Web Page............................................................................................................

The XML Page...........................................................................................................

The CORBA Page......................................................................................................

The Build Page............................................................................................................

The Enterprise Page....................................................................................................

The "Test" Page...........................................................................................................

The Search Menu............................................................................................................

Find in Path.................................................................................................................

Incremental Search......................................................................................................

Go To Line.................................................................................................................

Find Classes................................................................................................................

The Project Menu...........................................................................................................

Customizing the JBuilder Environment..............................................................................

Tabs and Carriage Returns..........................................................................................

The Run Menu................................................................................................................

The Team Menu..............................................................................................................

The Wizards Menu..........................................................................................................

The Tools Menu..............................................................................................................

Adding a Third Party Tool to the JBuilder Menu System...............................................

The Window Menu.........................................................................................................

The Help Menu...............................................................................................................

The Open Tools API.......................................................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 6

The UI Designer..............................................................................................................

Overview........................................................................................................................

A Theory of Interface Design...........................................................................................

UI Designer Basics..........................................................................................................

Dropping Components on the UI designer........................................................................

Viewing the Source JBuilder Generates........................................................................

The Constructor for Frame1........................................................................................

Understanding jbInit....................................................................................................

More on Editing UI Code by Hand..............................................................................

Coming to Terms with processWindowEvent...............................................................

Visual Programming Tricks and Techniques......................................................................

Multi-Selecting Components........................................................................................

Deleting Components..................................................................................................

The Structure Pane Rules!...........................................................................................

The Inspector..................................................................................................................

Creating a Simple Event Handler..................................................................................

Using JTabbedPane.........................................................................................................

Setting your ClassPath Inside the IDE..............................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 7

Using the Editor.......................................................................................................................

Key Mapping..................................................................................................................

JBuilder and Macros.......................................................................................................

Code Templates..............................................................................................................

Setting up Tabs...............................................................................................................

Setting up Carriage Returns and Line Feeds.....................................................................

Error Insight................................................................................................................

Letting JBuilder Write Your try..catch Blocks...............................................................

Letting JBuilder Write Your Import Statements................................................................

More on Import Statements.........................................................................................

Optimizing Imports......................................................................................................

CodeInsight.....................................................................................................................

MemberInsight............................................................................................................

ClassInsight.................................................................................................................

ParameterInsight..........................................................................................................

Find Definition.............................................................................................................

Find References..........................................................................................................

Integration with the Structure Pane...................................................................................

Resource Strings.............................................................................................................

Override Methods...........................................................................................................

Implementing Interfaces...................................................................................................

Integration with Emacs or other Editors............................................................................

Using Bookmarks............................................................................................................

Access to Javadoc..........................................................................................................

Viewing Javadoc with the F1 Key................................................................................

Viewing Javadoc with the File View Tabs....................................................................

JavaDoc......................................................................................................................

Viewing Javadoc by Unzipping a Jar File......................................................................

Finding Errors After a Compile....................................................................................

Summary.....................................................................................................................

Chapter 8

Java Basics: Classes and Methods...........................................................................................

The Governing Analogy of the Next Three Chapters.........................................................

Understanding Java Classes.............................................................................................

Basic Class Syntax..........................................................................................................

The Scope of a Class: Default vs. Public..........................................................................

Nested Class: Not Covered in this Chapter..................................................................

Creating and Destroying Classes......................................................................................

Declaring Methods in a Class...........................................................................................

Working with Strings...................................................................................................

Declaring the Type of a Method...................................................................................

Using a Class in an Application........................................................................................

Constructors...................................................................................................................

Public Classes, Your First Package..................................................................................

Inheritance..................................................................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 9

Java Basics: Types..................................................................................................................

The Basic Java Types......................................................................................................

A Class that Uses All the Types.......................................................................................

Declaring the Simple Types..............................................................................................

Initializing the Simple Types.............................................................................................

Thinking about booleans..................................................................................................

Thinking about chars........................................................................................................

Working with bytes.........................................................................................................

Working with shorts, ints and longs..................................................................................

What Should I Use: A byte, short, int or long?..................................................................

Working with floats and doubles......................................................................................

A Program to Test the MyTypes Class............................................................................

Working with Menus.......................................................................................................

The Code in the CallMyTypes Application.......................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 10

Statements, Expressions and Keywords...................................................................................

Statements..........................................................................................................................

Examples of Statements...................................................................................................

Compound Statements....................................................................................................

Expressions.....................................................................................................................

Keywords.......................................................................................................................

Assertions...................................................................................................................

Summary.............................................................................................................................

Chapter 11

Looping, Operators and Currency...........................................................................................

Loops.............................................................................................................................

for Loops........................................................................................................................

while Loops....................................................................................................................

Understanding Math Operators........................................................................................

Example of Using the Math Operators.............................................................................

Multiplication Operators and Integers...........................................................................

Floating Point Operations and Accuracy..........................................................................

Floating Point Types and Money: BigDecimal...............................................................

Review of Promoting and Converting Types.....................................................................

Assignment Operators.....................................................................................................

Summary.........................................................................................................................

Chapter 12

Layout Managers....................................................................................................................

Layout Theory.................................................................................................................

Some Theory on Containers........................................................................................

GridBagLayout vs the World.......................................................................................

A Layout is Just a Class.....................