How do I get the JFrame of a component?

By Wayan in Swing 0 Comment

This code snippet gives an example on how to get the JFrame of a component. In this example we try to get the JFrame from a button action listener event. To get the JFrame we utilize the SwingUtilities.getRoot() method and this will return the root component of the component tree in out small program below which is a JFrame.

Beside getting the JFrame, in this program we also do small stuff like changing the frame background color by a random color every time a user presses the “Change Frame Color” button.

package org.kodejava.swing;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.HeadlessException;

public class GetFrameDemo extends JFrame {
    public GetFrameDemo() throws HeadlessException {
        initialize();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> new GetFrameDemo().setVisible(true));
    }

    private void initialize() {
        this.setSize(500, 500);
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        this.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER));

        final JLabel rLabel = new JLabel("r: ");
        final JLabel gLabel = new JLabel("g: ");
        final JLabel bLabel = new JLabel("b: ");

        JButton button = new JButton("Change Frame Background Color");
        button.addActionListener(e -> {
            Component component = (Component) e.getSource();

            // Returns the root component for the current component tree
            JFrame frame = (JFrame) SwingUtilities.getRoot(component);

            int r = (int) (Math.random() * 255);
            int g = (int) (Math.random() * 255);
            int b = (int) (Math.random() * 255);

            rLabel.setText("r: " + r);
            gLabel.setText("g: " + g);
            bLabel.setText("b: " + b);

            frame.getContentPane().setBackground(new Color(r, g, b));
        });

        this.getContentPane().add(button);
        this.getContentPane().add(rLabel);
        this.getContentPane().add(gLabel);
        this.getContentPane().add(bLabel);
    }
}
Get Swing Root Component

Get Swing Root Component

How do I disable JFrame close button?

By Wayan in Swing 0 Comment

To disable the close operation on a JFrame, when user click the close icon on the JFrame, we can set the value of the default close operation to WindowConstants.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE.

package org.kodejava.swing;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.HeadlessException;

public class DisableCloseButtonDemo extends JFrame {
    public DisableCloseButtonDemo() throws HeadlessException {
        initialize();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> new DisableCloseButtonDemo().setVisible(true));
    }

    private void initialize() {
        // WindowConstants.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE tell JFrame instance to do
        // nothing when a window closing event occurs.
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE);

        JButton button = new JButton("Close");
        button.addActionListener(e -> System.exit(0));

        this.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER));
        this.setSize(new Dimension(500, 500));
        this.getContentPane().add(button);
    }
}

How do I get the path from where a class is loaded?

By Wayan in Core API, Lang Package 0 Comment

This examples shows how to get a path name or location from where our class is loaded.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class CodeSourceLocation {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        CodeSourceLocation csl = new CodeSourceLocation();
        csl.getCodeSourceLocation();
    }

    private void getCodeSourceLocation() {
        // The location from where the class is loaded.
        System.out.println("Code source location: " +
            getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation());
    }
}

The code snippet print the following output:

Code source location: file:/F:/Wayan/Kodejava/kodejava-example/kodejava-lang/target/classes/

How do I validate email address using regular expression?

By Wayan in Core API, Lang Package 0 Comment

In this example we use the String‘s class matches() methods to match a string to be a valid email address based on the given regex.

This example also demonstrate the power of regular expression to validate an email address. Using regular expression makes it easier to validate data such as email address. After the code you’ll see the meaning of the regular expression used in the code below.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class EmailAddressValidation {
    private static final String EMAIL_REGEX =
            "^[\\w-_\\.+]*[\\w-_\\.]\\@([\\w]+\\.)+[\\w]+[\\w]$";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EmailAddressValidation validator = new EmailAddressValidation();

        System.out.println("isValid = "
                + validator.isValidEmailAddress("[email protected]"));
        System.out.println("isValid = "
                + validator.isValidEmailAddress("[email protected]"));
        System.out.println("isValid = "
                + validator.isValidEmailAddress("[email protected]"));
        System.out.println("isValid = "
                + validator.isValidEmailAddress("user.domain.co.id"));
    }

    /**
     * Validates email address against email regular expression.
     *
     * @param email an email address to check
     * @return true if email address is valid otherwise return false.
     */
    private boolean isValidEmailAddress(String email) {
        return email.matches(EMAIL_REGEX);
    }
}

The first ^[\\w-_\\.+]. The ^ symbols means check the first character. This the regex processor that the email address should start with a word character formed of alphanumeric value (a-z 0-9) or it can also be a hyphen, underscore, dot or a plus symbol.

The second part, *[\\w-_\\.]. The * symbol means match the preceding zero or more times. As the first part, this tell the regex processor to check for another zero or more characters, and it can also contain hyphen, underscore and a dot.

The third part, \\@([\\w]+\\.)+. This check that email address should contain the @ symbol followed by one or more word separated by the dot symbol.

The last part is, [\\w]+[\\w]$, this check that after the last period there should be another word for the domain suffix such as the co.uk or co.id. And the $ ask that the email address should end by a word character.

How do I include a page fragment into JSP?

By Wayan in JSP 2 Comments

In this example you can learn how to include a JSP fragment into another JSP page. This is a common practice when creating a web application where we usually have a navigation section, the main content and the footer of a web page. Using the include directive make it simpler to maintain the fragment of a web page, which mean that when we need to change for example the footer section we just need to alter the footer include file and all the page that includes it will get the benefit.

The page inclusion that using the include direction will occur at page translation time, it is when the JSP page is translated into a Servlet by JSP container. We can use any file extension name for the JSP fragment used by the include directive. In this example we use the .jspf extension which is short for JSP Fragment.

Here is an example of JSP with include directive.

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>JSP - Include Directive</title>
</head>
<body>

<div id="header">
    <%@ include file="/include/common/header.jspf" %>
</div>

<div id="content">
    Main application content goes here!
</div>

<div id="footer">
    <%@ include file="/include/common/footer.jspf" %>
</div>

</body>
</html>

header.jspf fragment.

Header
<hr/>

footer.jspf fragment.

<hr/>
Footer