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Title: Java Swing, Second Edition by James Elliott, Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, David Wood, Brian Cole ISBN: 0-596-00408-7 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (66 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The most informative reference available
Comment:
Pavel Vorobiev and I are currently finishing up an 'advanced' Swing book consisting mainly of examples ("Swing", Manning publications). We have referenced the Swing source code nonstop. Apart from this, we feel that Java Swing is the best Swing reference money can buy. This book is not an API docs dump. It is a high quality reference book for GUI developers who are prepared to do their job professionaly, not blindly. If you are looking for a hand-holding tutorial this book is not for you (for this I would suggest Up to Speed With Swing).
Java Swing is very well organized and full of original explanation. I encourage potential readers to disregard other comments claiming that this book is API repetitive or doesn't explain enough. No book can cover every possible situation that can arise in the creation of a GUI, and no book will fully explain all of the inner workings of each Swing component and UI delegate. Swing is a very complex and extensive library with some very interesting and powerful mechanisms working behind the scenes. Without a doubt, Java Swing is the most informative and rich reference available. I recommend it highly.
Matthew Robinson
"Swing", Manning publications
Swing "Tips and Tricks", The Swing Connection
Rating: 4
Summary: A good resource
Comment: "Java Swing" is an in-depth look at the features and components of Java's popular Swing API. The much-anticipated second edition of O'Reilly's classic brings the book up-to-date with the changes made in SDKs 1.3 and 1.4. Each Swing component is covered in detail, providing information on constructors, methods, and properties. There is of course a plethora of example code clearly demonstrating how to use the various components and features.
While "Java Swing" is quite a hefty book, it does not cover the Java event model introduced in JDK 1.1, the AWT layout managers, or relevant AWT components such as Component that are subclassed by Swing components. Instead references are given to pdf files containing chapters of O'Reilly's out-of-print AWT book. While this may have been an acceptable omission for the first edition in 1998, where it might be assumed that developers had some experience with AWT, I do not feel this is a valid assumption today.
If you can look past the book's omissions, or if you have a companion reference covering those features, "Java Swing" has much to offer and will serve as a treasured reference. If you are unfamiliar with AWT and looking to learn how to develop user interfaces in Java, you may wish to look elsewhere first.
Rating: 5
Summary: Advanced SWING
Comment: I really enjoyed this book. The authors really cover all the areas of SWING - JAVA 1.4. If you are new to JAVA, you might to buy a JAVA primer. This book on SWING has a lot of code which is good for experienced developer. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn advanced features on SWING. I have a message for the experienced developer: the code of the book will challenge you - it challenged me!!!
Michael
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Title: Swing, Second Edition by Matthew Robinson, Pavel Vorobiev, Pavel A. Vorobiev, David Anderson ISBN: 193011088X Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Java 2D Graphics by Jonathan Knudsen ISBN: 1565924843 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Java in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596002831 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Java Cookbook by Ian F. Darwin ISBN: 0596001703 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition) by Richard Monson-Haefel ISBN: 0596002262 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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