New to swing :( need help with simple text areas

Question

i'm trying to make a username and pasword GUI thingy (techinical word) but what i have now is this:-
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.IOException;
public class swing1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener
     private String newline = "\n";
     protected static final String textFieldString = "JTextField";
     protected static final String passwordFieldString = "JPasswordField";
     protected JLabel actionLabel;
     private JTextField textField;
     private JPasswordField passwordField;
     private Container p; // make a panel to witch the components can be added
     public swing1()
          super("swing1");
          //Create a regular text field.
          textField = new JTextField(10);
          textField.setActionCommand(textFieldString);
          textField.addActionListener(this);
          //Create a password field.
          passwordField = new JPasswordField(10);
          passwordField.setActionCommand(passwordFieldString);
          passwordField.addActionListener(this);
          //Create some labels for the fields.
          JLabel textFieldLabel = new JLabel(textFieldString + ": ");
          textFieldLabel.setLabelFor(textField);
          JLabel passwordFieldLabel = new JLabel(passwordFieldString + ": ");
          passwordFieldLabel.setLabelFor(passwordField);
          //Create a label to put messages during an action event.
          actionLabel = new JLabel("Type text and then Return in a field.");
          actionLabel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(10,0,0,0));
          //Lay out the text controls and the labels.
          p=getContentPane(); //get te contant pane of this Swing1 to add the componets to
          p.add("West",textField); //add your fist component, add it west on the dafault borderLayout
          p.add("East",textFieldLabel);// add another component, add it east on the dafault borderLayout
          p.add("South",passwordField);// add it south on the dafault borderLayout
          p.add("North",actionLabel); // add it north on the dafault borderLayout
          setSize(400,100); //make it a bit bigger
          setVisible(true);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
               Object o = e.getSource();// the component that fired this event
               if (o == textField)
                    //action from the textField
               else if (o == passwordField)
                    //action from passwordfield
          public static void main(String[] args)
                              JFrame frame = new TextSamplerDemo();
                              frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
                                   public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
                                             System.exit(0);
                                                            new swing1(); //make a new instance of your class
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why won't the label on my password field dislay?
and can you take a look at the end of my code i got it off another program, i want to get rid of the HTML page its trying to access and i want it just to close when i click X
any help would be briliant
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Answer 1

Since you are new to Swing the first thing I would recommend is to read the tutorial "Creating a Gui with JFC/Swing". I think the Text Component section has a demo on creating a username/password GUI. It can be downloaded at:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
Why doesn't the password field label display? You are not adding it to the container. You add textField, textFieldLabel, passwordField, actionLabel but no passwordFieldLabel.
Instead of adding a WindowListener and implementing the windowClosing() method, there is an easier way to close the JFrame in JDK1.3. Simply use:
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
The class "TextSamplerDemo" doesn't belong in this class (it must be a demo class you downloaded from somewhere). All the code you need in the main method is:
JFrame frame = new swing1();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
Also, by convention classes should be named with the first character of each word capitalized. So you class should be renamed to "Swing1" from "swing1". Also remember to rename the file as the filename and class name must be the same and case does matter.