Introducing Wizards and Builders

Visual J++ provides several wizards and builders to help you develop your applications. A wizard adds a new file to your project by guiding you through a series of steps. Each step contains Back and Next buttons to navigate through the steps. The Cancel button cancels all settings you’ve made and closes the wizard. The Finish button accepts the selections you’ve currently entered and uses the default settings for any remaining steps. (The Finish button is available once you make enough choices for the wizard to complete the task.)

Note   When you run a wizard, you can typically save your settings to a profile. The next time you run the wizard, you can load this profile to reuse the settings.

While a wizard creates a new file through a step-by-step process, a builder assists you in modifying the existing files in your project. Visual J++ provides the following wizards and builders:

Wizard or Builder	Description
	Automatically creates a WFC application containing a form. You have the option of binding the form to the fields in a database.
	Modifies your WFC components by adding and removing properties and events.
	Automatically generates a form that is bound to the fields in a database. The Data Form Wizard supports Microsoft Access .mdb files and databases that can be accessed through ODBC.
	Inserts Java definitions for the Win32 API functions into your code, along with the appropriate @dll.import tags.