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Click and Pick: Picking Dates Using JCalendar

Many applications have data entry screens with date fields in which the user must enter a month, day, and year. Although it may be less work for the programmer to just let users manually enter these dates as text, it's not as friendly to the user as having a pop-up window with a date-picking calendar. Also, by using a date picker, the values will never be entered incorrectly and data validation is much easier. JCalendar is an open-source component for picking dates from a calendar. Adding the JCalendar class to any Swing container displays the calendar and allows the user to move backward and forward ...