The CMP Business 1.9 classes are JavaBeans that come in both
plain and dbAware versions (to work with Symantec
dbAnywhere).  These are a work in progress.  They work
reasonably well, but I still want to polish them futher.  I
have released them early with source so novice programmers
can learn how various editing and prompting tasks can be
done, and can cannibalise parts of my code for their own
classes.  The components catch keying errors usually on the
very keystroke they occur.  These classes are quite
fanatical in validating keyed data.  There are components
for: FormattedTextFields (work from a mask), dates, postal
codes (Canadian), Phone numbers (Canadian), provinces
(Canadian)...  It would be fairly trivial to modify these
classes to use American validation tables.  I have a written
a separate program that goes to the Bell NANP web site and
extracts the necessary Canadian and American validation
information, so I could create an American telephone number
for you if there is interest.  These classes prompt and
generate error messages.  You must call Complain.create()
however for that feature to be turned on.  THese are
provided as is.  There is no documentation or sample
applications on how to use them.  However, they are quite
well commented internally.  Enjoy.  If you find bugs, do
extensions you think might be useful to others etc.  please
report back.  I would be quite happy to include, for example
your State_US class (based on Province CA) in the package.
Coming soon is a numeric data entry class that keeps numbers
right aligned like a calculator as you enter.  If you have
some artistici ability and can soup up the GIFs, it would be
nice if you would share those with the world too.  I'd like
to get some gifs for a Gender class with male, female,
unknown icons.  These versions are based on the KL Group
TextField that comes with Symantec.  They used to be based
on the AWT TextField and will likely be Swing-based in
future.

Version 1.4 adds the CSVReader and CSVWriter classes for
reading and writing Microsoft's comma-separated-value format
files.  It also adds the MathExt class do compute hyperbolic
trigonometric functions.  Version 1.5 adds improved
CSVReader and CSVWriter where you may configure the
separator character.  1.6 moves everything to the
com.mindprod.business package.  Version 1.7 adds
ResizingImageViewer and StoppableThread.  Version 1.8 adds
ImageInfo to rapidly find the width and height of a *.jpg or
*.gif image file. Version 1.9 renames the old Symantec
database code as *.old since it won't compile without their
classes. It also contains a new version of BigDate, available
separately as well.