Introduction

In NetBeans, the progress allow you to notify to the user that a process is running. This is really useful for long processes.

• What you will learn :
  • You will learn in this tutorial how to create a simple progress bar at the bottom of your NetBeans application.

• What you will need :
  • A medium level in Java development
  • NetBeans 6
  • Any Operating System

Creating the process to observe

The first thing to do is to implement the process which needs to be notified. This process must implement the interface Runnable.

It should look like this :

The method run() contains the code of your process.

 Creating the progress bar