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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Has an exceedingly high "density" of valuable information. Very up-to-date as of Java 1.4. Started helping me in my day-to-day professional Swing programming from Day One...
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Summary: Not for Beginners
Review: I am a 10 year veteran programmer in C, C++ and recently, Java (but not GUI). My transition from C++ to Java was fairly simple and I am now a great fan of Java. This book was my first introduction to Java Swing--not a good experience. This book lacks the fundamental big picture aspects of Swing and dives right into the details, making it appear more complicated than it really is.
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of Swing Details, Bad Styles
Review: I do like the the levels of details that the authors chose to cover Java Swing. A lot of difficult concepts are pretty clearly explained by examples and notes. But I do not like the naming conventions that the authors used. I think that it is unnecessary to use extra characters(m and underscore)for naming instance variables :-)O'Reilly's Java Swing 2nd edition is also up to date, and it takes a different approach to Swing. Check it out!
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Summary: A must-have for serious Swing developer
Review: I found this book the best for intermediate to seasoned Swing developer. Excellent coverage on some Swing topics not covered in sufficient depth elsewhere - such as tables, trees and GridBagLayout. The book is considered a classic in Java Swing developers community and is highly recommended to anyone with some basic Swing understanding who wants to know it real well and use it. The code examples are quite practical, I used the concepts from the book several times in my projects.
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Summary: Review
Review: I found this book very useful. First, it is available online (for free!). Second, it contains really vital information for Swing developer. The contents could be more extended. Anyway, I vote for this book, I found answers to my practical swing questions there several times.
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Summary: Attention: MISLEADING TITLE
Review: I gave 1 star rating because this book was a waste of money for me, since it is not teaching you any Swing!! As I understood it containts some tips and advice for advanced Swing developers, but not for the beginner. Note: I'm an experienced Java and J2EE programmer, but problem is this book is not covering basics which you have to know to work on Swing applications.
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Summary: Excellent for Java Swing GUI developer
Review: I highly recommend this book. I purchased it about 2 months after starting development of a Java-based GUI. This book paid for itself in the first week, based on the time I saved. It has excellent code examples that are well commented - each example has a section titled "Understanding the code" which explains exactly how each Swing component is used in the code. The sections on JTable and JList were the most valuable to me. I have modeled all of my tables on the examples in the book, and was able to write my own renderers to handle the unique data I was displaying in the tables (combination of icons and text). I have used this book more than any other on my shelf - it's well worth the price!
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Summary: Strongly impressed
Review: I read this book while buying O'Reilly's "Java Swing," mainly because I noticed that one of the authors of this book gave a glowing review of the O'Reilly book. Wonderful thing to occur, since I found this book very useful and unique. True to the cover, it has "production quality" examples written in Swing, including an entire word processor in the section about JEditorPane. I am downloading the code at this moment to test it out. The presentation in this book for each chapter is roughly: Show a class' place in the Swing hierarchy, explain the concepts and useful methods, then iteratively develop an interesting application. These applications start out with simple features, then the next revision has another new feature.. and so forth. Bugs encountered ARE REPORTED. That, along with the O'Reilly review I mentioned earlier, points to a good honesty. I have no problem commending them by paying for their book. For beginners to Swing, I would recommend Sun's tutorial book on Swing (by Mary Campione). You can check it out for free and then perhaps buy it. You could also learn Swing from this book, but perhaps you would have more of a cut&paste understanding. Depends. For those used to Swing, this book really files in the big gaping hole in Java's documentation: Good examples of little things being used. Cuts down on experimentation. I know from personal experience that Sun's jdk HTML renderer blows, but this book tells you that it does, and where to go to find out when it stops blowing so badly.
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Summary: Strongly impressed
Review: I read this book while buying O'Reilly's "Java Swing," mainly because I noticed that one of the authors of this book gave a glowing review of the O'Reilly book. Wonderful thing to occur, since I found this book very useful and unique. True to the cover, it has "production quality" examples written in Swing, including an entire word processor in the section about JEditorPane. I am downloading the code at this moment to test it out. The presentation in this book for each chapter is roughly: Show a class' place in the Swing hierarchy, explain the concepts and useful methods, then iteratively develop an interesting application. These applications start out with simple features, then the next revision has another new feature.. and so forth. Bugs encountered ARE REPORTED. That, along with the O'Reilly review I mentioned earlier, points to a good honesty. I have no problem commending them by paying for their book. For beginners to Swing, I would recommend Sun's tutorial book on Swing (by Mary Campione). You can check it out for free and then perhaps buy it. You could also learn Swing from this book, but perhaps you would have more of a cut&paste understanding. Depends. For those used to Swing, this book really files in the big gaping hole in Java's documentation: Good examples of little things being used. Cuts down on experimentation. I know from personal experience that Sun's jdk HTML renderer blows, but this book tells you that it does, and where to go to find out when it stops blowing so badly.
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Summary: Beginners, take note
Review: I thought I ought to point out that this book is not only for advanced programmers. I got "Swing" as a newcomer to programming, period, and have found the book perfectly accessible. I had a cursory experience of Swing from a general Java text, and was able to start right at the back of the book. The example code has saved me SO much time, and I know this book will always have the answers I need as my skills improve. Do not be intimidated by the size or material in this book.
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