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Creating and Disposing of a Form's Runtime Frame

To create a main() method for a form

Open for editing the bound class of a form where you want to create the main() method.
Press AltInsert.

On the pop-up menu, click Form main(). The following method is added to the source code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("<class name>");
    frame.setContentPane(new <class name>().contentPane);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

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