how use Java Password Field

In this post we will discuss how to use password field in Java programming.
To create a password field in Java Swing JPasswordField is used. JPasswordField is a subclass of JTextField.JPasswordField is a special type of text field which allows to enter password only. Due to the security reason characters of JPasswordField is displayed as the different type rather than the user types and its value is stored into an array of characters.

Syntax :
public class JPasswordField extends JTextField
Constructor Detail

constructor	Description
JPasswordField()	A default constructor creates a new password field. Syntax : public JPasswordField()
JPasswordField(Document doc, String txt, int columns)	This constructor creates a new JPasswordField object with the given text storage model and the given column number. Syntax : public JPasswordField(Document doc, String text, int columns)
JPasswordField(int columns)	This constructor creates a new JPasswordField object with the given column number. Syntax : public JPasswordField(int columns)
JPasswordField(String text)	This constructor creates a new JPasswordField object that initialized with the given text. Syntax : public JPasswordField(String text)
JPasswordField(String text, int columns)	This constructor creates a new JPasswordField object that initialized with the given text and columns. Syntax : public JPasswordField(String text, int columns)

Method Detail : Some commonly used methods of this class are as follows : echoCharIsSet() : A method which returns a boolean value 'true' if JPasswordField has a character set for echoing.
Syntax : public boolean echoCharIsSet() getAccessibleContext() :
 This method is used to get the AccessibleContext associated with the JPasswordField.
 Syntax : public AccessibleContext getAccessibleContext() getEchoChar() :
This method is used to get the character used for echoing by the JPasswordField.
Syntax : public char getEchoChar() getPassword() :
This method is used to get the text of the JPasswordField. These text are stored in an array of characters.
 Syntax : public char[] getPassword() paramString() :
This method is used for debugging purposes, it returns a String of the JPasswordField.
Syntax : protected String paramString() setEchoChar(char c) :
This method is used to set the character used for echoing by the JPasswordField.
 Syntax : public void setEchoChar(char c) Here we will give a simple example which will demonstrate you how to use JPasswordField. In this example we will create a user login application into which a user can login only when its name and password will be matched to the data stored into the database. In this example we will create a Java class and we will use the JPasswordField to take the input for password before creating a Java class we will create a database table and we will insert the bulk values into it.
 Source Code Create Database Table
 CREATE TABLE `user` ( `name` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `password` varchar(15) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`name`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1


SwingJPasswordExample.java

import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPasswordField;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.util.Arrays;
public class SwingJPasswordExample implements ActionListener{
String dbName = "record";
String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/"+dbName;
String user = "root";
String password = "root";
char[] inputPassword;
Connection con = null;
PreparedStatement ps = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
JFrame frame;
JLabel l_pw, l_text;
JButton button;
JPasswordField pw;
JTextField name_text;
public void createUI()
{
frame = new JFrame("Secure Password Example");
frame.setLayout(null);
l_text = new JLabel("Enter Name");
name_text = new JTextField(10);
l_pw = new JLabel("Enter Password");
pw = new JPasswordField(10);
pw.setEchoChar('*');
button = new JButton("Enter");
button.addActionListener(this);
l_text.setBounds(10,40,100,20);
name_text.setBounds(120,40,100,20);
l_pw.setBounds(10, 90, 100, 20);
pw.setBounds(120,90,100,20);
button.setBounds(120,120,80,20);
frame.add(l_text);
frame.add(name_text);
frame.add(l_pw);
frame.add(pw);
frame.add(button);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setSize(400, 300);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
{
if(ae.getSource() == button)
{
boolean bol = matchPassword();
if(bol == true)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, "Login S
}
else
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(pw, "Password n
" Try again.", "Error Message", JOpti
//Zero out the possible password, for securit
Arrays.fill(inputPassword, '0');
//select all characters in password field
pw.selectAll();
//reset focus on password field
pw.requestFocusInWindow();
}
}
}
public boolean matchPassword()
{
char[] dbPassword = null;
inputPassword = pw.getPassword();
String name = name_text.getText();
try
{
Class.forName(driver);
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password
String sql = "Select name, password from user where n
ps = con.prepareStatement(sql);
rs = ps.executeQuery();
while(rs.next())
{
String psw = rs.getString("password");
dbPassword = psw.toCharArray();
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Login failed!","Failed
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}
if(inputPassword.length != dbPassword.length)
{
return false;
}
else
return Arrays.equals(inputPassword, dbPassword);
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
SwingJPasswordExample sje = new SwingJPasswordExample();
sje.createUI();
}
}