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copied!<p>Lots of questions here and I'm not sure where to start but I can sympathize with you one this one. Unless you have a well seasoned team that has already gone through the pains of Swing application development things can quickly become out of control and unmanageable. </p> <p>Before you adventure into re-writing a project I would start with defining some simple standards for development. Like package structures and listeners. I would also recommend splitting the application up into well <strong>unit tested</strong> modules or sub projects.</p> <p>Also, ask yourself if you really need to re-write the application or does it just need some TLC. As a consultant and Director of IT I see developers always wanting to re-write applications just because they've learned something new or don't think it's up to par. When they come to me and tell me that it's junk and needs to be re-written I usually send them back and ask them to come up with alternative solutions to a re-write and the impact of each solution including - doing nothing. In a lot of cases we didn't write the application at all.</p> <p>[UPDATE] Lastly, If you are going to re-write I would use a <a href="http://domaindrivendesign.org/" rel="nofollow">Domain Driven Design</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller" rel="nofollow">MVC</a> approach. <strong>Yes, I said MVC for desktop applications!</strong>. We've had great success with these methodologies. It keeps a good separation of concern and makes things easily re-usable. It also provides the structure to easily switch out the presentation layer. Most importantly it's easy to unit test and any developer that understands MVC can understand the basics of your project without knowing the details.</p> <p>I have some more thoughts but i'll leave it at that for now. ;)</p>

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