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Chapter 18 JDBC and Database Connection Pooling

Listing 18.16 WindowUtilities.java 

package coreservlets;

import javax.swing.*;

import java.awt.*;

/** A few utilities that simplify using windows in Swing. */

public class WindowUtilities {

  /** Tell system to use native look and feel, as in previous

   *  releases. Metal (Java) LAF is the default otherwise.

   */

  public static void setNativeLookAndFeel() {

    try {

      UIManager.setLookAndFeel

        (UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

    } catch(Exception e) {

      System.out.println("Error setting native LAF: " + e);

    }

  }

  public static void setJavaLookAndFeel() {

    try {

      UIManager.setLookAndFeel

        (UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName());

    } catch(Exception e) {

      System.out.println("Error setting Java LAF: " + e);

    }

  }

  public static void setMotifLookAndFeel() {

    try {

      UIManager.setLookAndFeel

        ("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel");

    } catch(Exception e) {

      System.out.println("Error setting Motif LAF: " + e);

    }

  }

}

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