Component Border

There are many times when you want a JTextField and a JButton to work together. That is you provide the user with a text field for entering data and you provide a button to display a popup component to make it easier to enter the data. An example might be a date field. Some users might choose to type the date directly into the text field, while others might choose the point and click approach. There are a couple of common appoaches for achieving this and one not so common approach that I will suggest.