Separate Swing code from Real code?

[Faceman]

Is there an easy way to separate the swing-related stuff from the real code of a program? Like if you have a program that is Swing based, but want the functionality to run as part of another project or to run in a console instead, is there any way of ripping out the Swing stuff?

[graviton]

you will have to use the classical mvc design pattern, where you seperate you model (the core logic with the data) from the swing classes which use it.

[mnuttall]

And put them in different packages - that way you can use a build tool to include/exclude classes easily.

And Unit test - that way you can prove you have good separation.

[Faceman]

Thanks guys, but I meant if you already had the source code to an existing program based in swing and wanted just the functionality out of it. But it's ok, I ended up doing it the hardway

Cheers.

[Phaelax]

If it's tied in with swing components that much, you have no choice but to extract the functions and rebuild a more modular design.