Is there an easy way to bind a Swing interface with a data source

Question

I am programming the admin part of a Swing application using WindowBuider, it would basically be tables filled with items which I need to do a CRUD operations on them. the Data comes from MySQL database. I can do it by hand but, it will take too long

Is there an easy way to do that ? using something like in Access forms...

Thanks

Answer 1

Standard Swing components a too low level and do not provide anything like you need. If commercial solution is suitable from you, have a look at JIDE components.

Answer 2

The article Binding Beans and Data in a Desktop Application shows how to bind persistent data to Swing components. NetBeans can generate entity classes from a database and create the corresponding Persistence Unit using any of several providers. This very simple example began with a Customer entity derived from an H2 Database and accessed via a Top-Link Essentials provider.

Answer 3

The NetBeans Platform contains all kinds of tables and data binding. Because it's built with Swing, you can use the components in regular swing apps.