A JButton is a subclass of AbstractButton and it can be used for adding platform-independent buttons in a Java Swing application. A JButon can generate an ActionListener interface when the user clicking on a button, it can also generate the MouseListener and KeyListener interfaces. By default, we can create a JButton with a text and also can change the text of a JButton by input some text in the text field and click on the button, it will call the actionPerformed() method of ActionListener interface and set an updated text in a button by calling setText(textField.getText()) method of a JButton class.
Example
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class JButtonTextChangeTest extends JFrame { private JTextField textField; private JButton button; public JButtonTextChangeTest() { setTitle("JButtonTextChange Test"); setLayout(new FlowLayout()); textField = new JTextField(20); button = new JButton("Initial Button"); button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { if (!textField.getText().equals("")) button.setText(textField.getText()); } }); add(textField); add(button); setSize(400, 300); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setLocationRelativeTo(null); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { new JButtonTextChangeTest(); } }