How to Show Open Save File Dialog in Java Swing Application? JFileChooser Example

Hello guys, if you worked in Java GUI-based application then you may know that Swing provides class javax.swing.JFileChooser can be used to present a dialog for the user to choose a location and type a file name to be saved, using the showSaveDialog() method. Syntax of this method is as follows:

   public int showSaveDialog(Component parent)

where the parent is the parent component of the dialog, such as a JFrame.

10 AWT Swing Interview Questions Answers in Java

AWT and Swing Interview Questions are part of any Java interviews which involves GUI development work. Since AWT(Abstract Windows Toolkit) and Swing offers most popular Java GUI solutions, Yes, JavaFX  has still lot of path to cover in terms of popularity and usability of Swing. In Investment banking, where Java rules on server side application development, Swing was heavily used in GUI development couple of years back. Now trends is shifting towards C# for GUI development due to couple of reasons e.g. good Swing developers are not easy to be found as compared to C# developers. By the way there are still many development work is going on Swing. One of the reason Swing developers are high in demand is because Swing is quickly becoming a niche technology.