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Possible ways to create console like screen in java

I am trying to create a screen like this one
Initially I was trying to port a console program to java. I have found things like jcurses and charva but there is almost no documentation on them and I really cant understand how to use them.
So I figured that I could create a console like screen that resembled the one above.
what library / framwork would I be best using. Should I use swing as it if fully portable?
what would be the best approach being that I need to be able to navigate and alter the 00 in the picture above?
Easily usable would be great but as long as it has good documentation that I can learn it from that would be fine.

(Answering as if you're looking for a hex editor.)
http://jhecomponent.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fifesoft.com/hexeditor/
http://hexedit-lib.sourceforge.net/
Played a bit with the fifesoft.com offering, kinda cool.
If you're not looking for a hex editor, can you be more specific? If you just want a cursor-addressable window you'll probably have to suck it up and figure out something like jcurses or libjcsi :)

If you prefer to create a full fledged GUI with Java you could certainly use Swing. I would prefer SWT as a matter of personal taste, the widget library of Eclipse. You will find a lot of snippets and tutorials (same for Swing). Here is the Widget Library.
Here is a discussion about SWT versus Swing.
You could use the table layout manager to create the layout shown in your screenshot. If you rewrite the application from scretch, you should be able to handle the GUI events and update the widgets according to your application needs. You will easily find articles when you search for swt and table. If you would like to keep the code base and just exchange the GUI, I 'm not sure about the best approach. Maybe, the libs jcurses and charva are the way to go.

Unless you are looking to run the app on a headless VM (where a console/tty is all you've got), I'd use Swing. Create a JTable with a custom TableModel (to provide the data) and custom renderers (to provide the hex formatting) and everything should just work. Consider deriving from the various DefaultXXX implementations to save a lot of work.

Guidelines to implement a minimal shape drawing tool desktop application using Java

We need to implement a Java desktop application that allows us (initially) to create / edit / resize / polygons on (initially) images. Then these polygons would be mapped to objects in our domain model.
So we basically need a toolbar with the options describe above and the possibility for the example to create a polygon on the an image and then scale it, or resize it, just that.
Do you know some library that could facilitate our work?
We've analyzed GEF, Picollo, NetBeans Visual API, Plain Swing or SWT/JFace, but none of them seems to help us to achieve our goal, which is, implement a really basic image editing tool.
I would like to mention that I'm not saying that what I want to do is not possible with the analyzed libraries, of course it can be done, but I'd like to learn from your experiences which is the correct path to take for this problem.
Any suggestion will be welcomed.

You could try to use GEF and the eclipse plataform.
this article could help you.
saluti

You might look at GraphPanel, a simple object drawing program. The control components are arranged in a JPanel, but JToolBar is a more flexible alternative.

Have you looked at imagine.dev.java.net? It is a NetBeans Platform application, which, though unfinished, might provide you with an interesting starting point.

Turn photoshop design into Java GUI

I can't seem to find anybody who has done or posted something like this; Essentially I want to design my own UI in photoshop and then slice down the images to use it in a Java application. Essentially coding in the PSD file as the GUI. Is this possible? If so, can anybody lead me in the right direction?
I'm not sure what editor to use for this sort of stuff. I am using the Eclipse IDE and I know there is a Visual Editor but, I already have the actual design for every component in a PSD file. All I want to do is to start incorporating this into the application. Thanks.

It depends on how far your design goes. If you simply want to have normal Swing components on top of your image this is easy. Convert your PSD into (for example) PNG, create a custom JPanel subclass that loads the image and overwrite the paintComponent() method to draw the image instead of the normal background. All child components can then be set to be transparent with setOpaque(false). This puts your image into the background and puts the components float on top of it.
If you want to change how individual components look, its a lot more work. You basically need to implement a new Look&Feel for Swing. I wouldn't recommend going that route, unless you really have to, we are talking about weeks of work here, and it requires a lot of testing to really make it work properly on all platforms.
Alternately, there are already tons of custom Look&Feels available, I suggest you take a look at some freely available ones (just google "java look and feel"). Many of them can be customized to some degree (how much depends on the actual implementation, so take a close look at the source/documentation for each of them).

You might want to take a look at NetBeans which has a Swing GUI Builder. You would have to redraw your components there, and then write all the code to process the events. It is sometimes good to start with that, though often times it is less frustrating to lay them out with code by hand as it can difficult to make changes in code and have the builder keep up. There is nothing I know that will let you start from a photoshop image and proceed to building a GUI. Sounds like a good project to make someone rich. :-)

What Java GUI framework is good for a first GUI project?

The title description basically says it all. I'd like to use something that requires a relatively short learning curve since it is my first project and I'd like to spend at least some of it actually writing the code, not just learning how to do it, but also something that has good documentation in a way that some new bleeding edge framework probably wouldn't. Any ideas?

If what you want to do, is actually create a working program with a GUI, and you just want to do that I would recommend looking at the Swing GUI editor in NetBeans, as it is very easy to work with and powerful too.
There is an old demonstration floating around showing how to implement a preference panel like the one in Netscape Navigator (the predecessor to Firefox), but I cannot find it right now.
The Java tutorial trail is here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/learn/index.html
EDIT: It appears the preference panel demo has been taken offline. You may want to see this demo for NetBeans 6.0 instead: http://www.javalobby.org/eps/matisse-updates/

It's not clear if you mean a desktop or Web GUI.
For a desktop GUI, just use Java's Swing framework. Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing is a starting point for that. Sure it's old but then again so is Swing. You could also try The Java Swing tutorial.
For a Web GUI, start with servlets/JSPs. Try Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.0: A Tutorial.

Swing + MiGLayout ^^

I know you did say you wanted a simple and easy to learn GUI toolkit. #cletus has nailed that answer :)
But if need to look for alternatives and evaluate them before you decide how to write a GUI, check out this list of alternatives to Swing and AWT.

Swing + GroupLayout
I've been posting on these a couple of times.

Java: Adding a User Interface to a program

If I have Java program and I need to alter it to an interface and include icons,
is there any easy I can do this and is there a good application that can help me to do it ?
or do I have to code it in myself?

Nop, /me thinks ur need 1337 mad Java programin' skillz!
Translation for the rest of the world: Sorry, you'll need to program in Java.
Added: Hey, what's with the downvotes? He started it! :P Besides - no matter if he wants to add or modify (the original text wasn't clear on this) the UI of a Java program, he will need to program in Java to bring his UI together with the code. There is no miracle tool that can allow you to draw an UI and it will suddenly do what you do.

Netbeans has a Swing GUI Builder. Quoting from their website. Let's hope this doesn't count has hidden advertising :)
Design Swing GUIs by dragging and
positioning GUI components from a
palette onto a canvas. The GUI builder
automatically takes care of the
correct spacing and alignment. Click
into JLabels, JButtons, ButtonGroups,
JTrees, JTextFields, ComboBoxes and
edit their properties directly in
place. You can use the GUI builder to
prototype GUIs right in front of
customers.

If you want to add a UI to your Java program there are tools to help you, such as the Swing GUI Builder inside of IntelliJ Idea. However, you're still going to have to write the appropriate code to hook into the UI.

It's just a website? Well depending on whether it uses CSS you might be able to just modify a .css file. This will only let you modify how the site looks as opposed to works.
See here for an example of how this technology works. However this depends on how css-dependent the website is and it's possible you may still run into some difficulties.

You want to use a Java framework to help you with the UI. For example, you can use JSF (Javaserver faces), which allows you to drag and drop components for a UI onto the site. Otherwise, you can use web programs such as Dreamweaver to design the UI, before coding the backend logic yourself in java.