Going forward, each new CJWizard release will officially support usage of the library with all OpenJDK versions that have long-term support, PLUS the version that is current, at release time. This change will be effective with the next release of CJWizard.

CJWizard is a library for creating swing based wizard dialogs in Java.

This library is meant to be an improvement on the Java Wizard library, formerly at https://wizard.dev.java.net/; that library offered a good framework for simple wizards, but it dictated a great deal of what you can do - justified by the java usability guidelines. However, not all of the restrictions are justified by those guidelines. For example, it is particularly difficult to change the type of widget used on the left side of the wizards (it is initially an image with the list of wizard pages displayed over top of it). Making this area interactive, as a global navigation tool, is non-trivial.

In addition, it is extremely cumbersome to define complex wizards that change their branching behavior at runtime. Generally, the Java Wizard API is difficult to use, and at times contradictory.

That said, we've learned a lot from the Java Wizard API, and some of those ideas have been incorporated into CJWizard.

Take a look at the FAQ and QuickStartGuide to get going, and send me questions if you have any.

This shows CJWizard in action, with a custom PageTemplate (drawing the list of dialog pages on the left) that wraps around a !TitledPageTemplate (drawing the underlined title of the !WizardPage). The Windows L&F was used to make it look like a native app. (The Finish button is enabled because the surrounding app is robust to missing data, and allows for the user to come back to the wizard at a later date, if needed. Generally, and by default, the Finish button is disabled if it is not explicitly enabled, which often happens in the render() method of the last !WizardPage)

CJWizard is now hosted in Lobos Studios' java-dev repository.

To use the repo with Gradle:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
        url "https://repos.lobosstudios.com/repository/java-dev/"
    }
}

dependencies {
    // this is just an example; the other Maven artifacts are
    // still available, same as before.
    implementation "com.github.cjwizard:cjwizard:[VERSION]"
}

To use it with Maven:

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>lobosstudios-nexus-java-dev</id>
            <name>Lobos Studios java-dev</name>
            <url>https://repos.lobosstudios.com/repository/java-dev/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.github.cjwizard</groupId>
            <artifactId>cjwizard</artifactId>
            <version>[VERSION]</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

repos.lobosstudios.com runs on a Sonatype Nexus server. Repos hosted on Nexus require the slash at the end of the URL. Don't forget it...

See docs folder

To use this library you need

• Java 7 or later

This library depends on

• slf4j-api