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Accepting formatted input doesn't have to be difficult with input verifiers and focus listeners. This installment of Magic with Merlin shows you how to use the new JFormattedTextField component to prompt for numbers, dates, and formatted input. The Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), version 1.4, adds two new Swing components to the palette of available GUI elements: JSpinner and JFormattedTextField.

Discover MBeanInspector for WebSphere Application Server, a Java Management Extensions-based administration program for WebSphere 5. MBeanInspector is a useful testing tool; it allows users to examine MBean attributes, invoke MBean operations, and listen for MBean notifications.

Create a professional, consistent user interface with the Browser-based Application Toolkit, a Web presentation framework with extendible building blocks. The toolkit’s framework can be used to rapidly build GUIs that not only mimic business processes, but also implement IBM's standards for accessibility and national language enablement.

Have you ever wanted to grab a screenshot from your Java application? Here's a quick tutorial on how to grab a screenshot and save it to a JPEG and PNG file. This shows how to use the Robot class to capture the screen image and the ImageIO API to save it as a JPG and PNG.

This tutorial shows how to change the default close action to exit the application when the window is closed. In additon, this discusses the different close actions.