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Façade clears complexity

Develop dialog boxes and Swing apps faster

By David Geary, JavaWorld.com, 05/30/03

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Fortunately for façades

Powerful APIs, which are plentiful in Java, are wonderful when you need a power tool, but for most basic uses, façades provide a simpler alternative that greatly eases application development. In this article, I've discussed a Swing built-in façade—the JOptionPane class—and a custom façade—ApplicationSupport—that make it much easier to create Swing applications.

About the author

David Geary is the author of Core JSTL Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library (Prentice Hall, 2002; ISBN: 0131001531), Advanced JavaServer Pages (Prentice Hall, 2001; ISBN: 0130307041), and the Graphic Java series (Prentice Hall). David has been developing object-oriented software with numerous object-oriented languages for 18 years. Since the GOF Design Patterns book was published in 1994, David has been an active proponent of design patterns, and has used and implemented design patterns in Smalltalk, C++, and Java. In 1997, David began working full-time as an author and occasional speaker and consultant. David is a member of the expert groups defining the JSP Standard Tag Library and JavaServer Faces, and is a contributor to the Apache Struts JSP framework.

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