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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:55:20+00:00

I have a fat GUI that it getting fairly complex, and I would like

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I have a ‘fat’ GUI that it getting fairly complex, and I would like to add links from a place to an other, and add back/forward buttons to ease navigation. It seems to me that this would be easier if my application was addressable: each composite could have its URI, and links would use that URI.

Are there design patterns applicable to this problem?

I could just look at the source code for Firefox or Eclipse, but these are huge projects and it would take a good amount of time making sense of it, so I’m asking here. Is there a simpler example somewhere?

Of course it would be simpler if I had build a web app in the first place, but I’m not going to rewrite this huge app from scratch anytime soon.

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  1. In Swing, you might use a CardLayout. You can have each ‘page’ be a card, and the name of the card (chosen when adding cards to the layout) would be equivalent to the URI you want.

    Example:

    String PAGE_1_KEY = 'page 1'; String PAGE_2_KEY = 'page 2'; // as many keys as you need  JFrame frame = ...; frame.setLayout(new CardLayout()); frame.add(createPage1(), PAGE_1_KEY); frame.add(createPage2(), PAGE_2_KEY); // etc.

    Then in your buttons’ action listeners, you would call

    ((CardLayout)frame.getLayout()).show(frame, PAGE_1_KEY); // or whichever
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