NetBeans useful for real swing database apps ?

[Olaf Raether]

Hi all,

i played a little bit with Netbeans IDE and Database capabilities with swing.
But the most demos i saw have all the quality of an "hello world" app.
But in real DB-apps i need a litlle bit more.

- Lookup fields with combo boxes
- The dropdown text must show multi column from an other table(master/detail)
- Lookup fileds within an Grid

And i want to create this all within the IDE - without writing code of couse.
Is this possible with Netbeans ?

Why i´m listing all this features ? In Jbuilder3 up to to JBuilder2006 this was possible.
In the current versions(Eclipse based), this is not possible. So i´m looking for an alternative to this
old Jbuilder Version.

Thanks for any comment.

[swing_developer]

As a Swing programmer, I would answer that it's not that hard to learn Swing and I don't  know of anything like you describe though someone else might. There might be some beans-binding thing out there for you if you're determined to not have to code. I myself avoid learning everything I think I can get away with, but I consider my Swing knowledge to be time well spent and very valuable... 

Google "swing tutorial"

my 2 cents!

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Olaf Raether <o.raether@...> wrote:

Hi all,

i played a little bit with Netbeans IDE and Database capabilities with
swing.
But the most demos i saw have all the quality of an "hello world" app.
But in real DB-apps i need a litlle bit more.

- Lookup fields with combo boxes
- The dropdown text must show multi column from an other
table(master/detail)
- Lookup fileds within an Grid

And i want to create this all within the IDE - without writing code of
couse.
Is this possible with Netbeans ?

Why i´m listing all this features ? In Jbuilder3 up to to JBuilder2006 this
was possible.
In the current versions(Eclipse based), this is not possible. So i´m looking
for an alternative to this
old Jbuilder Version.

Thanks for any comment.

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[Melongo Annabel]

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Here's a good tutorial that will get you going: http://www.javapassion.com/javaintro/index.html#Swing

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Sent: Thu, October 22, 2009 2:41:51 PM
Subject: Re: [nbdev] NetBeans useful for real swing database apps ?

As a Swing programmer, I would answer that it's not that hard to learn Swing and I don't  know of anything like you describe though someone else might. There might be some beans-binding thing out there for you if you're determined to not have to code. I myself avoid learning everything I think I can get away with, but I consider my Swing knowledge to be time well spent and very valuable... 

Google "swing tutorial"

my 2 cents!

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Olaf Raether <o.raether@...> wrote:

Hi all,

i played a little bit with Netbeans IDE and Database capabilities with
swing.
But the most demos i saw have all the quality of an "hello world" app.
But in real DB-apps i need a litlle bit more.

- Lookup fields with combo boxes
- The dropdown text must show multi column from an other
table(master/detail)
- Lookup fileds within an Grid

And i want to create this all within the IDE - without writing code of
couse.
Is this possible with Netbeans ?

Why i´m listing all this features ? In Jbuilder3 up to to JBuilder2006 this
was possible.
In the current versions(Eclipse based), this is not possible. So i´m looking
for an alternative to this
old Jbuilder Version.

Thanks for any comment.

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[Geertjan Wielenga]

Olaf Raether wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i played a little bit with Netbeans IDE and Database capabilities with
> swing.
> But the most demos i saw have all the quality of an "hello world" app.
You obviously haven't seen this page yet:

http://platform.netbeans.org/screenshots.html

Gj