This tutorial provides Java Application Programmers with a standalone application that integrates the functionality and domain entities discussed in the previous tutorials.

This application is built on top of the Tensegrity Skeleton Framework, a generic application framework complete with menus, toolbars, navigators, attribute tables and other container windows.

The Tensegrity Skeleton Framework is designed to support different windowing toolkits. These include the Swing API and AWT (included in the Java Runtime Environment) and JFace and SWT (which is shipped with the Eclipse Development Environment).

In order to provide support for all of these different windowing toolkits, the Tensegrity Skeleton Framework provides a number of abstract interfaces and concrete toolkit implementations. In this tutorial, we aim to give you a fundamental understanding of our application framework by making use of the Swing API implementation.

The various sections of this tutorial will discuss the key features and some implementation details of the Skeleton classes and interfaces. After you have finished reading, we recommend that you reference the Creating Applications chapter inside the Framework Manual. There you will find a more complete description of the Skeleton Framework API.

This custom application will display a subset of the standard windows available in the framework, specifically a