How to develop a "small" application in Java?

[dlite922]

We're running around like headless chickens and gotta get this project done in weeks not months and I'd like some advice as to where to start. (and by we, I mean 2 developers with only beginner Java experience, but much more experience in one or more other programming languages)

Overview of the software:

Part 1: Parse a mpeg section file byte by bye and display the content in tabular format in a user interface. Grab an ID for each record and update an XML (a mapping of changes)

Part 2: Parse the same mpeg section raw file, take out anything that's not in the XML from part 1 (basically a mask). Do something similar with another file of the same type. Then split the result into 3 pieces based on timestamp in the file and write to a directory.

We don't know where to start.

Should we choose the Netbeans platform? Go with JSR296? Develop something from scratch? Eclipse platform?

What is your experience? Perhaps we can choose a framework that we have experts here so we there can be some hand holding with developer's on Byte.

Thanks guys,


Dan
(The PHP GEEK)

(I can do this whole project in PHP, in OOP, in less than a week)

[Dheeraj Joshi]

JSR296(Swing Based Applications) go well with NetBeans.

I prefer doing it using netbeans.

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi