Question

I am a novice as already stated and looking to create a button to close the program out. I am not talking about making sure the typical window close (Red X) terminates the program. I wish to make an additional button within my frame that when clicked will terminate the program as well.

Answer 1

You can add an ActionListener to your button which, upon action being performed, exits from the JVM.

yourButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        System.exit(0);
    }
});