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Summary: Definitely the Best Swing Book
Review: This book provides a really detailed and deep examination of Swing. Especially the more complex components, like tables and trees, the chapters about those components are awesome. The table chapter alone is 150 pages, and tells you just about everything you need to know about tables.
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Summary: A good reference
Review: This book saved tons of time with great and detailed examples on almost every situation a developer might face while developing a Swing application. This book never failed me.
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Summary: Almost Everything You'd Want To Know About Swing. . . .
Review: This book was a great resource for learning more about Swing, it's underlying mechanics, and the Model-View-Controller architecture it uses. The chapters are well written, in good order and can provide as much or as little information as you require.Don't expect to read this book and be able to write your own look and feel off the bat. It gives you a good starting point though (and Amazon.com has by far the best price). An invaluable resource for Swing.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This is an excellent book! You definitely want this book on your shelf if you are a Java developer. If you are writing GUI based java programs, you will need this book sooner or later.
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Summary: Good summary of swing, swing componants
Review: This is probably the best Swing reference currently out. Good intro to Swing theory and architecture for someone coming from an AWT background, as well as nice coverage of MVC in Swing. My only complaints on this book month. Why not just put it on a CD? 2) Organization could be clearer. The jacket suggests to 'cruise the treetops' of the book, and read detail where you need it, but the chapters aren't organized nicely for this purpose, and I often find myself wading through detail to get the overview
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Summary: Great book, although too much repetition and unused paper
Review: This is really a fantastic book on Swing and is definitely worth the buy. My only gripe is that in the tons of examples that are presented, most code is listed twice. Once to explain each part, and then all put together at the end. I think it would be more effective to show all the code and then explain it. This would have saved tons of pages and made the book easier to carry around and work with. For example, on pages 1060 and 1061 we see the same code on each page. As with most programming books these days there just seems to be too much unused paper and big gaps to spread the book out and make it as long as possible. Considering these are the only legitimate complaints I can make after going through several chapters here and tehre, I have to say this book is great.
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Summary: Top swing book
Review: This is, no doubt about it, the top swing book around. Almost all questions you might have about a swing component are answered and if you fell like the java docs don't do a good job at explaining them, this book is for you. All components (i belive) are explained to the extreme (the author even explain the design of it) and there is a usefull table per component explaining which methods in Swing correspond to the ones in AWT, and that is particulary usefull if you need to convert AWT to Swing. There is also a good explanation of the model-view design of the components, which does a good job at explaining the JTree and JTable, the newest and most complex (as an other reviewer mentioned) components of Swing. One thing this book doesn't cover is the Graphic 2D library, but a new book is suppose to come about it. Oh yeah, one of the downsides is that this book is VERY heavy and big, but i guess that's the price...
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