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    <p>You asked for frameworks and Tools:</p> <ul> <li>First of all I would use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28Java%29" rel="nofollow">Swing</a>, since it is the standard and very well supported among all platforms out of the box</li> <li>At the moment I think I would go with the <a href="http://kenai.com/projects/bsaf/pages/Home" rel="nofollow">Better Swing Application Framework (BSAF)</a>. It is lightweight and very good extendable</li> <li>For designing the UI I would recommend using Eclipse and the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder/" rel="nofollow">Window Builder</a> plugin. It does a decent job with 2-way editing (means you don't have blocked regions in your code and it is also able to interpret existing GUIs)</li> <li>Another way would be drawing your UI by hand and implement it with custom layout managers like <a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/libraries/forms/" rel="nofollow">JGoodies Forms</a> or <a href="http://www.miglayout.com/" rel="nofollow">MigLayout</a></li> <li>For accessing the DB I would also recommend an ORM mapper like <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/" rel="nofollow">EclipseLink</a> (never worked with it) or <a href="http://www.hibernate.org/" rel="nofollow">Hibernate</a> (use and like it a lot).</li> <li>I would always draw a separation layer between the UI and the database by adding a service layer. Why? It greatly increases maintainability! This can be very well accomplished with either the <a href="http://www.springsource.org/" rel="nofollow">Spring Framework</a>, which can run with your ORM mapper and everything on a client machine, or with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBeans" rel="nofollow">Enterprise Java Beans</a>, if you plan to use an application server to which the client will connect.</li> <li>For delivering your application you could use a common installer tool like the <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">Nullsoft installer</a> which includes a JRE and then wrap the application with another tool like <a href="http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Launch4J</a> (although I have never tried this one).</li> </ul> <p>If you are new to Java or object oriented programming in general, please read <a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/" rel="nofollow">Effective Java</a> (genereally for Java) and Martin Fowlers descriptions of several <a href="http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/" rel="nofollow">presentation patterns</a> - here I like the <a href="http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PassiveScreen.html" rel="nofollow">passive view</a> most.</p> <p>It is really a lot to learn, but if you want to do it "right", then I think there is no way around it.</p>
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