Make splash screen with progress bar like Eclipse

Java has a built in SplashScreen class just for this purpose. There is a tutorial on how to use it here.

when the counter gets to the specified number it should stop at (300) it keeps counting for ever without stopping the timer and hiding the splash screen.

The code below seems to work great (with the fatal flaw the counter may take longer then the file loading and vice versa):

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;

public class SplashScreen extends JWindow {

    static boolean isRegistered;
    private static JProgressBar progressBar = new JProgressBar();
    private static SplashScreen execute;
    private static int count;
    private static Timer timer1;

    public SplashScreen() {

        Container container = getContentPane();
        container.setLayout(null);

        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setBorder(new javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder());
        panel.setBackground(new Color(255, 255, 255));
        panel.setBounds(10, 10, 348, 150);
        panel.setLayout(null);
        container.add(panel);

        JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello World!");
        label.setFont(new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 14));
        label.setBounds(85, 25, 280, 30);
        panel.add(label);

        progressBar.setMaximum(50);
        progressBar.setBounds(55, 180, 250, 15);
        container.add(progressBar);
        loadProgressBar();
        setSize(370, 215);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    private void loadProgressBar() {
        ActionListener al = new ActionListener() {

            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                count++;

                progressBar.setValue(count);

                System.out.println(count);

                if (count == 300) {

                    createFrame();

                    execute.setVisible(false);//swapped this around with timer1.stop()

                    timer1.stop();
                }

            }

            private void createFrame() throws HeadlessException {
                JFrame frame = new JFrame();
                frame.setSize(500, 500);
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        };
        timer1 = new Timer(50, al);
        timer1.start();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        execute = new SplashScreen();
    }
};

i want to bind the counter to the file loading, so while the file is loaded the progress gets loaded until the file gets loaded then the progress completes and the splash screen disappears.

You should take a look at ProgressMonitor and ProgressMonitorInputStream using a Task you may then check when the file is completely read and end the SplashScreen. see here for some great tutorial and explanation