In this chapter, you learn how to deploy components that allow data to be typed into text fields, so that you can display and edit a movie's instance variables. You also learn about labels and buttons.

Next, you learn about what property-change listeners are and how you can fire events that activate property-change listeners.

When you have completed this chapter, the movie application about which you are learning will have not only a rating meter and a displayed list of movies, but also mechanisms that allow you to change ratings easily.