- Swing components (JFrame, JPanel, JButton, JLabel, etc)
- AbstractTableModel to populate JTable
- SwingWorker to run tasks in a background thread
- MVC design pattern
Scenario - Football table
There are four main requirements of this coding exercise:
1. Write a standalone application that will read in values from a pre-defined text file, 'football.dat'. The file includes information relating to football teams, the games played, goals scored per match, etc.
2. Display the data within the file in a JTable in the same order as that within the text file.
3. Include a button in the frame that, when clicked, calculates the most consistent team. The definition of 'consistent' is left open.
4. The calculation of the most consistent team will be performed off the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT), such that after pressing the button the EDT will not freeze while calculating.
Packaging
Package the source code alongside a built Football.jar file. The jar file must be runnable, and the code must compile without exceptions.
MVC design pattern is used to separate data and user interface concerns so that changes to the user interface will not affect data handling making the application more maintainable.
Model (FootballStatsModel and TableModel) - represents data from interface file football.dat and the business logic to calculate the most consistent team
View (FootballStatsView) - class where components are arranged and components' properties are set.
Controller (FootballStatsController) - it keeps model and view separated. controls all actions and data flow from model and view.
- data from file is tab delimited
- first line of file contains table headers
- file football.dat is on the same folder as the executable jar
- no sort functionality
- data from text file is displayed as is, data is not validated.
- any changes to football.dat will not refresh the table
- netbeans IDE designer is used to design user interface
- "Unable to load file" is displayed when file is not found
- "Unable to calculate" is displayed when scores contain letters or special characters
- data validation of football.dat
- improve algorithm in calculating most consistent team
- display multiple teams when teams have equal consistency ratings
- maintain error messages and location of football.dat in a properties file
- create test scripts for regression testing