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This book shows you how to use Swing to add a GUI to your Jython scripts, with an emphasis on the WebSphere Application Server wsadmin utility. In fact, we´re going to teach you Swing using Jython, and we´re going to do it in a way that, hopefully, that makes your scripts easier for people to use, more robust, more understandable, and therefore easier to maintain.

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1. Components and Containers
2. Interactive Sessions vs. Scripts
3. Building a Simple Global Security Application
4. Button up! Using Buttonsand Labels
5. Picking a Layout Manager Can Be A Pane
6. Using text input fields
7. Other Input Components
8. Selectable Input Components
9. Lists
10. Menus
11. Using Trees to Show the Forest
12. Motion to Take from the Table
13. Keystrokes, Actions and Bindings
14. Event of The Year (Events Handling)
15. Nuts to Soup
16. Conversing with a User with Dialog Boxes
17. Specialized Dialog Boxes
18. Monitoring and Indicating Progress
19. Internal Frames
20. Graphical Help Application
21. A Security Configuration Report Application
22. WASports - A WebSphere Port Application

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Robert A. (Bob) Gibson is an Advisory Software Engineer with decades of experience in numerous software-related roles at IBM, including Architect, Developer, Tester, Instructor, and Technical Support. While providing technical support for the IBM´s WebSphere Application Server product, he was the primary author for WebSphere Application Server Administration Using Jython which was published by IBM Press. He is currently a member of the IBM technical support team responsible for the IBM MQ product on distributed platforms. He holds both a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

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