I am fairly new to Swing.  I have created a printed report, using the
PrintJob object to render to a printer device.
Can someone provide me with an overview of what needs to be done to render
the report to the screen?

I've a problem with retrieving data from a BufferedImage:
first of all, I create an empty BufferedImage in my application:
image = new BufferedImage(100,200,BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
Later, I use

Can anybody recommend a good Swing GUI builder for Eclipse ?
Thank you in advance,
Oleg.

suppose I have the following rough sketch of inheritance hierachy.  When I
try to invoke the getSpeed() method at main(), I receive a "method not found
error", because the compiler keeps looking at the Vehicle class for the
getSpeed(), when instead it should look at the Car class ...

I'm running into some odd behavor with JMenuItem's, and was hoping that
someone might be able to help me out.
I can create the menu and add it to the JFrame with no trouble.  But then
when I try to add a Panel the frame to be able to put other GUI objects in

I take it a JFrame can go through several states.
I want to get this clear. Is this correct?
You create a JFrame then do setVisible( true ).
If you setVisible ( false ), the frame object still hangs around with

API specification for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4.1.
says: "The java.awt.TextArea internally handles scrolling". But, despite
that, uneditable TextArea component in my program doesn't scroll
automatically. The text is inserted into component using append() ...