The design of the GUI for Software RAID Tool

To design the GUI for the Software RAID tool, the Swing Application Framework [1] is being used which is integrated with NetBeans IDE 6.1 [2]

The GUI consists of the following major swing controls:

• jTabbedPane
• jPanel
• jFrame
• jMenu/jMenuItem

I also integrated JavaHelp [3] to provide a user guide which will explain to the users about the various features and technical background information.

References:

1. https://appframework.dev.java.net/
2. http://amitksaha.blogspot.com/2008/03/swing-application-framework-on-netbeans.html
3. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/pkeegan/archive/2007/05/javahelp_and_sw_1.html

Related:

• http://amitksaha.blogspot.com/2008/03/software-raid-on-linux-part-1.html

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