Conquer Swing deficiencies in MDI development

Friday, 25 May 2001, by Gerald Nunn

Developers have used the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) for many years. It provides an understandable interface for building applications that require multiple documents or windows to be hosted simultaneously within a parent application. In an MDI application, a parent application contains a main application frame that hosts a variety of child frames within it. Users can then move, resize, minimize, and maximize these child windows on the desktop as desired.