In Swinging and Tweeting with Java and NetBeans: Part 1 of this article series, we saw a simple way to see your last tweet via a Java application called SwingAndTweet using the Twitter4J API.
In this article by Alfonso Romero, we will add some more functionality to our SwingAndTweet Java application.
Here, we will learn how to:
- Create a twitterLogin dialog to take care of the login process
- Add functionality to show your 20 most recent tweets right after logging in
- Add the functionality to update your Twitter status
In this tutorial, we'll develop the simple Java application further to add some more functions. Now that we can connect to our Twitter account via the Twitter4J API, it would be nice to use a login dialog instead of hard-coding our Twitter username and password in the Java application.
But before we start to build our enhanced SwingAndTweet application, let me show you how it will look like once we finish all the exercises in this part of the tutorial:
