Visual Index to Swing Components

http://www.iam.ubc.ca/guides/javatut99/uiswing/components/components.html

and  Guide:  http://www.iam.ubc.ca/guides/javatut99/uiswing/components/index.html  

or     http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/components.html

Block Read

http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~hankley/d501/Notes/3.Code/CodeSnippets.html  
  
Serialization

blue book , Chap 1.  (pp 17-19 )

      http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/ObjectInputStream.html

      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/objectstreams.html

       note:  can read a composite object ( as collection)  with one read statement;
                 all contained objects must declare Serializable ;
                 the new instantiated item is of type "Object" ... it must be cast to the proper type   :-(

Java Help Authoring:  http://www.solutionsoft.com/javahelp.htm     FYI only   

FileChooser   http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/filechooser.html

JTable & TableModel   http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html