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Lesson 7 - Birthday Reminder in Java Swing - Completing the logic

In the previous lesson, Birthday Reminder in Java Swing - Wiring the layers, we merged the logic layer with the form and got the core of our friends' birthdays management application working. In today's Java Swing tutorial, we'll extend the logic layer with other methods.

Person

We'll add the following methods to the Person class.

calculateAge()

The method calculates and returns the current age of a person as whole years. Unfortunately, this calculation isn't just about subtracting two dates, as Java can't do it using basic libraries. Therefore, we have to make the age calculation as follows:


 

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In this Java tutorial, we'll program methods to determine the person's age from their birthdate and other logic such as saving/loading people to a file.

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