Swing based application architecture

Question

I am planning to develop a swing application for developing a large in-house software. Features: It should be menu based. Modular Secure

Can you please help in choosing the right architecture and technologies to use with Swing. Also any good sample should be helpful.

Answer 1

The limited requirements you list don't really eliminate any framework options. Get a little further in your requirements and design before you determine what you need to add to Swing.

Answer 2

Do have a look at the NetBeans platform. It makes things a log easier. Especially for "large" applications, the module concept will help you a lot (eg for structuring your application)

It has a learning curve, but I think in the long run it will help you.

This article might give you an idea:

http://netbeans.dzone.com/nb-belgian-radio-monitoring-toolkit?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zones%2Fnetbeans+%28NetBeans+Zone%29

Answer 3

为了加强eugener的主张，我建议研究Spring Rich Client或其后继产品Valkyrie RCP。

Answer 4

I would suggest multi-tier architecture based on Spring Framework . We had a very good experience using Spring on the client as well as in our own application server. It makes difficult tasks a lot easier.

Answer 5

If you are not afraid to start with a framework that is still under development (although many of its parts are now stable), you couls take a look at GUTS .

It also requires knowledge of Guice Dependency Injection library, which helps having a very clean design of the whole application.