Now that we have implemented Black-Scholes in Clojure, let’s make a Swing GUI for it. The Swing GUI will have text boxes for all the necessary inputs, and calculate prices and Greeks when the button is pressed. It’s a simple and straightforward way to get started in Swing GUI programming in Clojure. Here’s what it looks like. 
The GUI is written entirely in Clojure with the Swing toolkit. Calculation state is stored in a series of atoms. Watches are used to update the output table automatically when an atom changes, an idea from Kotka. I used the excellent MiG Layout for general layout functionality, and generic Swing widgets (JTextFields and a JTable) for the input and output.
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