Book excerpt: This book comes as an answer for students, lecturers, or the general public who want to learn Java GUI programming starting from scratch. This book is suitable for beginner learners who want to learn Java GUI programming from the basic to the database level. This book is also present for JAVA learners who want to increase their level of making GUI-based database applications for small, medium, or corporate businesses level. The discussion in this book is not wordy and not theoretical. Each discussion in this book is presented in a concise and clear brief, and directly to the example that implements the discussion. Beginner learners who want to learn through this book should not be afraid of losing understanding of the programming concepts, because this book in detail discusses the concepts of Java programming from the basic to the advanced level. By applying the concept of learning by doing, this book will guide you step by step to start Java GUI programming from the basics until you are able to create database applications using JDBC and MySQL. Here are the material that you will learn in this book. CHAPTER 1 : This chapter will give you brief and clear introduction about how to create desktop application using Java GUI starting from how to setup your environments, create your first project, understand various control for your form, and understand how to interact with your form using event handling. CHAPTER 2 : This chapter will discuss clearly about the concept and the implementatiton of data types and variables in Java GUI. CHAPTER 3 : This chapter will discuss in detail about how to make decisions or deal with a condition in the program. This chapter is the first step to deeper understanding of logics in programming. This chapter specifically discusses relational operators and logical operators, if statements, if-else statements, and switch-case statements, and how to implement all of these conditional statements using Java GUI. CHAPTER 4 : This chapter will discuss in detail the looping statements in Java including for statement, while statement, do-while statement, break statement, and continue statement. All of these looping statements will be implemented using Java GUI. CHAPTER 5 : This chapter will discuss how to use methods to group codes based on their funcitonality. This discussion will also be the first step for programmers to learn how to create efficient program code. This chapter will discuss in detail the basics of methods, methods with return values, how to pass parameters to methods, how to overload your methods, and how to make recursive methods. CHAPTER 6 : This chapter will discuss in detail how to create and use arrays, read and write file operations, and how to display data stored in arrays or files in graphical form. CHAPTER 7 : This chapter will discuss in detail the basics of MySQL, how to access databases using JDBC and MySQL, and how to perform CRUD operations using JDBC and MySQL. CHAPTER 8 : In this chapter we will discuss more about Java GUI programming. This chapter will discuss in detail about how to make a program that consists of multi forms, how to create MDI application, and how to create report using iReport with data stored in a database.