Urgent Help on a Java Menus

Question

I am doing this simple program. where i have created three menu's and i want it to pop-up a seperate window when i press any of the menu items. till now i have written this code and created the menus, can you please tell me how to attach actionlisteners to each of the menu items, so that when one menuitem is selected it leads to a another frame performing a different function. It is also not showing the color i am using in the code.
public class GUIform extends JMenuBar {
String[] fileList = new String[] {"Connect", "Exit"};
String[] dataList = new String[] {"Query", "Add Student", "Delete Student", "Update Student"};
String[] OptionsList = new String[] {"Color", "Font"};
char[] fileShortcuts = {'L', 'E'};
char[] dataShortcuts = {'Q', 'A', 'T', 'U'};
char[] OptionsShortcuts = {'C', 'N'};
/** Creates a new instance of GUIform */
public GUIform() {
JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
JMenu dataMenu = new JMenu("Data");
JMenu OptionsMenu = new JMenu("Options");
ActionListener printListener = new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
System.out.println("Menu item [" + event.getActionCommand( ) +
"] was pressed.");
for(int i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++)
JMenuItem link = new JMenuItem(fileList, fileShortcuts);
link.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(fileShortcuts,
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getMenuShortcutKeyMask( ), false));
link.addActionListener(printListener);
fileMenu.add(link);
for(int i = 0; i < dataList.length; i++)
JMenuItem link = new JMenuItem(dataList, dataShortcuts);
link.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(dataShortcuts,
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getMenuShortcutKeyMask( ), false));
link.addActionListener(printListener);
dataMenu.add(link);
for(int i = 0; i < OptionsList.length; i++)
JMenuItem link = new JMenuItem(OptionsList, OptionsShortcuts);
link.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(OptionsShortcuts,
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getMenuShortcutKeyMask( ), false));
link.addActionListener(printListener);
OptionsMenu.add(link);
add(fileMenu);
add(dataMenu);
add(OptionsMenu);
public static void main(String s[ ]) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Student Application");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setJMenuBar(new GUIform( ));
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
frame.pack( );
frame.setSize(300, 200);
frame.setLocation(200, 200);
frame.setVisible(true);

Answer 1

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MenuTest
    public static void main(String s[ ])
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Student Application");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setJMenuBar(getMenuBar( ));
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
        frame.pack( );
        frame.setSize(300, 200);
        frame.setLocation(200, 200);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    private static JMenuBar getMenuBar()
        String[] fileList = { "Connect", "Exit" };
        String[] dataList = {
            "Query", "Add Student", "Delete Student", "Update Student"
        String[] OptionsList = { "Color", "Font" };
        char[] fileShortcuts = {'L', 'E'};
        char[] dataShortcuts = {'Q', 'A', 'T', 'U'};
        char[] OptionsShortcuts = {'C', 'N'};
        JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
        JMenu dataMenu = new JMenu("Data");
        JMenu OptionsMenu = new JMenu("Options");
        ActionListener printListener = new ActionListener()
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
                JMenuItem item = (JMenuItem)event.getSource();
                String ac = item.getActionCommand();
                System.out.println("ac = " + ac);
        for(int i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++)
            JMenuItem link = new JMenuItem(fileList, fileShortcuts[i]);
link.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(fileShortcuts[i],
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMask( ), false));
link.setActionCommand(fileList[i]);
link.addActionListener(printListener);
fileMenu.add(link);
for(int i = 0; i < dataList.length; i++)
JMenuItem link = new JMenuItem(dataList[i], dataShortcuts[i]);
link.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(dataShortcuts[i],
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getMenuShortcutKeyMask( ), false));
link.setActionCommand(dataList[i]);
link.addActionListener(printListener);
dataMenu.add(link);
for(int i = 0; i < OptionsList.length; i++)
JMenuItem link = new JMenuItem(OptionsList[i], OptionsShortcuts[i]);
link.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(OptionsShortcuts[i],
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getMenuShortcutKeyMask( ), false));
link.setActionCommand(OptionsList[i]);
link.addActionListener(printListener);
OptionsMenu.add(link);
JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
menuBar.add(fileMenu);
menuBar.add(dataMenu);
menuBar.add(OptionsMenu);
return menuBar;