New Roads, LA -- September 26, 2003 -- SwingSet is an open source Java
toolkit that allows the standard Java Swing components to be made
database-aware.  While there are several commercially available solutions
that perform similar tasks, SwingSet is the first known open source
solution.

SwingSet utilizes SSTextDocument, an extension of the standard PlainDocument
class to link the JTextField or JTextArea to a database column within a
RowSet.  In addition, custom classes are provided to replace the standard
JComboBox and JCheckBox. The SSComboBox provides an Access-like combobox
that can be used to display user-specified text choices based on an
underlying numeric column (e.g. allows my_table!choice_code, an integer
column with valid values of 0, 1, & 2, to be displayed as "yes," "no," &
"maybe").  The SSDBComboBox operates in a similar fashion, but is used where
both values and their corresponding text choices are stored in a table (e.g.
my_table!part_id is stored as a foreign key, but my_table!part_name is
diplayed).  By writing a custom event listener, SSDBComboBox may also be
used to navigate a RowSet based on a combobox selection.  The SSCheckBox
allows a checkbox to be linked to an underlying numeric database column.
Finally, a SSDataNavigator class is provided to allow traversal, insertion,
deletion, commit, and rollback  of a RowSet. Changes to the current record
are auto-committed when a navigation takes place (also similar to Access).

More information on SwingSet is available from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/swingset