It was out hope that with the aid of the BlueJ extensions we would create a GUI Builder that would feel a part of BlueJ. Recently BlueJ has been extended with the Extension API : The BlueJ extensions mechanism is a way of adding new functionality to BlueJ as and when it is needed, avoiding user interface clutter and user confusion.

Introduction The goal of this project is to design and implement (as an extension to BlueJ) a GUI builder which conforms to the spirit of the BlueJ project.

Finally we sum up what we consider to have achieved in this project and how close we think we were to completing our aims. We go on to outline what our objectives were and how we hoped to accomplish them, before detailing our final specification for the extension and how we went about implementing it. It starts off with an introduction to the project and our main goals, followed by a short description of the BlueJ IDE the aims it tries to achieve and its purpose. 1 A GUI Builder Extension for BlueJ Simon Hartley, Simon Acton, Jonathan Taylor Department of Computer Science, Kent University, Canterbury Abstract This paper talks about our design and implementation of a simple GUI builder as an extension to the existing BlueJ software.

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