Question

Well, I had this question in mind for a long time.
Even though I have a complex requirement,i will keep it as simple as possible.

I have background process which takes two arguments which I use to execute from command line.
The first argumets can have three valid values and the secong argument can have two valid values.

I usually run that process on command line in solaris unix.and that process is completely coded in C++.

What I want now is I wish to create a simple gui in java for running the process in background.
I am complete new to the advanced concepts of java, and I am aware of some core java which I studied in my college days.

So,My question overe here how do I start creating a gui?
What all do I need to create a simple gui using java?
I am confident enough to learn gui programming in java as I am a c++ programmer.

Please give me some right directions to give some life to my thought and any some good materials available on the net would be helpful.

Answer 1

I would start by looking at;

• Creating a GUI with Swing
• Concurrency in Swing
• Concurrency in Java

I’d also become familiar with ProcessBuilder (a simple example) and Basic IO

MarvinLabs also makes some great points as well