Understanding MVC and Swing Models

Swing Data Binding
Karsten Lentzsch www.JGoodies.com

Presentation Goals
Understand MVC and Swing models. Learn how to bind domain objects to Swing UI components.

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Speaker Qualifications
      Karsten builds elegant Swing apps works with Objects since 1990 helps others with UI and architectures provides libraries that complement Swing provides examples for Swing architectures writes about Java desktop issues

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Agenda
      Introduction MVC and Swing How to bind single values? How to bind lists A 3-tier Swing architecture How binding works in projects

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Swing Building Blocks
Application 1 Panels Utils Application 2 Help Printing Applications Helper Code/Libs Application Frame Basic Libraries Foundation

Components, Application Management, etc. Appearance Layout Binding Validation

JRE / Swing

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Swing Building Blocks
Application 1 Panels Utils Application 2 Help Printing Applications Helper Code/Libs Application Frame Basic Libraries Foundation

Components, Application Management, etc. Appearance Layout Binding Validation

JRE / Swing

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Questions
       Where do I find MVC in Swing? How to structure a Swing application? What is part of the model? How do I choose models? How to build a view? What does a controller do? Do I need controllers?
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I - Basics
MVC and Swing

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Before MVC
Painting Code State Operations (Control Behavior)
State

How to live without MVC?

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Before MVC: 2 Layers
Painting Code State Operations
State

Client

Server
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Separate Domain from Views
 Domain logic contains no GUI code 