What do you think....

I am starting on a personal project in java (of corse). It will be a text editor that will save the files in an xml format and let the user edit in xml, plain text with escape chars, and wysiwyg. It will be an applacation. I hope you make it open source and free to all. I am kinda new to java. I can do simple anamation in an applet but I need help with getting all the diffrent parts working together. Does any one know how I can get this done?

I need to have all this work together:
window
menubar
button pannel
cardlayout editing pannel {card 1: wysiwyg, card 2: xml, card 3: script edit, card 4: errors}
errors will be when the xml is praised
status pannel

If you can help me that would be verry nice.

btw: All tutorials don't have multipal things to have actions or events. in multipal pannels.