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Summary: Clear, Concise Examples: Yet not for the beginner
Review: The examples in this book are great! This book is very comprehensive. A must buy.
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Summary: Some good info, but poorly organized
Review: The first part of the book, up to page 350, provides some good background on Swing plus some usable examples. The last half (pages 350 - 800) is close to useless. The reference provides no descriptions, not even one sentence, about each member. Classes are hard to find since the page header does not give you any indication of where you are. The index is one of the worst I have seen. This was the only book on Swing in my local bookstore when I needed one fast.
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Summary: Doesn't live up to the reviews
Review: There is a 180 page index cross-listing 300 pages of method listings which are less informative than the API docs. The examples don't compare to David Geary's book. I thought this would be a unique reference but it isn't very useful. Don't believe the hype.
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Summary: Comprehensive Coverage!
Review: This book has dealt with most of the Swing components in great detail with practical examples . Great book and excellent price!
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Summary: Not his best work
Review: This book has good code samples and covers a lot of Swing. Unfortunately instead of really covering all the detail of a very complex framework, the book stops halfway both figuratively and literally. Of the 806 pages, only 356 are really any use. The last half of the book is composed of poorly presented synopses of the packages. These 450 pages (except for a workable index) are a waste and should have been used to convey the detail missing in the first half. They contain no navigational aids; instead class and interface descriptions appear seemingly randomly according to obscure (to me)organizational principles. The book also lacks a stylistic or pattern-based overview; instead we are left to infer these from the code samples.
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Summary: Introducing Swing + quick class reference
Review: This book is good as an introductory read with a good bit of source code. It assumes you know Java programming and helps you to get started using Swing. The other half of the book is a quick reference without much elaboration - good if you already use Swing and need to recall class information. The code does have some things left out; like in the Internal Frames examples - the author left out the JInternalFrame.show(); call and thus the missing Internal Frames in the MDI. Maybe he did it to get the readers to refer to his reference section-LOL!!! I recommend this reference to any programmer who has used a bit of Java and need to create a useable GUI to interact with their back end. This quick reference does not go in depth and you will need to get other books on advanced Swing programming to implement high quality functionality into your GUI.
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Summary: Introducing Swing + quick class reference
Review: This book is good as an introductory read with a good bit of source code. It assumes you know Java programming and helps you to get started using Swing. The other half of the book is a quick reference without much elaboration - good if you already use Swing and need to recall class information. The code does have some things left out; like in the Internal Frames examples - the author left out the JInternalFrame.show(); call and thus the missing Internal Frames in the MDI. Maybe he did it to get the readers to refer to his reference section-LOL!!! I recommend this reference to any programmer who has used a bit of Java and need to create a useable GUI to interact with their back end. This quick reference does not go in depth and you will need to get other books on advanced Swing programming to implement high quality functionality into your GUI.
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Summary: Clear to-the-point examples of JFC classes
Review: This is a good book if you are looking for short, clear examples of how to use the major JFC classes in Java2/Swing. It doesn't go into detail for every minute aspect of JFC, but on the other hand, that makes all the important data on JFC that much easier to find...less arcane fluff to wade through! If you are an experienced Java programmer and you want to quickly get up to speed with JFC, then this book is for you. If you are looking for a hand-holding tutorial for learning the Java language, look elsewhere. This book is for those with some Java language experience under their belt. (Put another way, if this book were a ski run, it would have a blue square sign. :-) I recommend this book mostly for its 350-page JFC quick-start overview with examples. The low price makes it a good value too. The last half (API overview) is not quite as useful as the first half, but overall, I give it 4/5 stars.
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Summary: Good reference for the advanced user
Review: This would be a difficult book for beginners, but does supply a lot of advanced information about using the Swing package. The general stuff at the beginning would be better served if replaced by a reference to the online tutorial at java.sun.com site. I recomend this text to anyone who needs or wants to use Swing.
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Summary: Excellent for experienced Java Developers
Review: When I learned Java a few years ago I fiddled around with the AWT and the event model. When Swing was released I was afraid that, due to its size and complexity, it would be difficult to learn. After an hour of reading Pure JFC Swing I had what I needed to begin creating GUIs with swing components. The book is not for beginners but if you know Java and the AWT this book has exactly the information you need (no filler) to grasp swing quickly.
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