1. An Introduction to the Window System

2. Agenda ● Problem statement ● Solution ● Demos: ● Creating a TopComponent ● Porting a Swing Application ● API Overview

3. Demo ● Simple Java application

4. Problems ● More is needed than putting a window on the screen: ● menus, toolbars, other common stuff ● context sensitivity ● moving/repositioning ● group behavior ● docking/undocking ● this is plumbing – boring, time sink, wheel ● Need a standard way to do this

5. Agenda ● Problem statement ● Solution ● Demos: ● Creating a TopComponent ● Porting a Swing Application ● API Overview

6. Solution: TopComponent ● Logical window management ● Window state ● Selection management

7. Agenda ● Problem statement ● Solution ● Demos: ● Creating a TopComponent ● Porting a Swing Application ● API Overview

8. Demo 1: Create a TopComponent demo

9. Demo 3: Port an Application demo http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/60/nbm-porting-basic.html

10. Agenda ● Problem statement ● Solution ● Demos: ● Creating a TopComponent ● Porting a Swing Application ● API Overview

11. What are its main classes? ● TopComponent ● WindowManager ● Mode ● TopComponentGroup

12. Advanced Topics ● Creating your own layout (modes) ● layout defined in xml layers ● Creating a TopComponent group

13. Questions & Answers