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With the arrival of Sun's Swing / JFC classes, Java developers can create user interfaces that look great and perform just as well as "native" interfaces. The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs provides a hard copy of Sun's popular online tutorial for Swing/JFC development. Its numerous code examples and clear presentation style make this title a fine choice for mastering the ins and outs of today's Swing.

Owing to its Web heritage, digestibility is perhaps this book's most notable feature. Short sections on virtually every topic in Swing programming help bring the reader up to speed with this UI library. Early sections look at getting started, the organisation of classes in both applets and applications, as well as useful high-level classes like frames and scroll panes and the like. When it comes to such basic Swing components as text, label and image controls, Swing beginners will appreciate the concise description of each component along with necessary APIs. More advanced material, such as optimising re-painting of Swing controls and techniques for more efficient tables, will be useful to any Swing developer.

Most computer books use either code excerpts or full-length programs. For the main text of The JFC Swing Tutorial short code examples are the norm, but with over 300 pages of complete programs in an appendix, this book will also please those who appreciate more complete examples.

Efficient and thorough, this book succeeds in making JFC / Swing enjoyable while imparting a good deal of necessary information. Armed with this book, any intermediate to advanced Java programmer can make sense of today's Swing with a minimum of effort. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: JFC basics, compiling and running JFC programs, JFC applets and applications, pluggable look-and-feel options, layout managers, event listeners and event handling, graphics, images, animation and painting, threads, JComponent, frames and top-level containers, basic and advanced JFC components, tables, trees, models and custom editors, accessibility APIs and converting code from AWT to JFC.

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With the arrival of Sun's Swing/JFC classes, Java developers can create user interfaces that look great and perform just as well as "native" interfaces. The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs provides a hard copy of Sun's popular online tutorial for Swing/JFC development. Its numerous code examples and clear presentation style make this title a fine choice for mastering the ins and outs of today's Swing.

Owing to its Web heritage, digestibility is perhaps this book's most notable feature. Short sections on virtually every topic in Swing programming help bring the reader up to speed with this UI library. Early sections look at getting started and the organization of classes in both applets and applications, as well as useful high-level classes like frames and scroll panes. When it comes to such basic Swing components as text, label, and image controls, Swing beginners will appreciate the concise description of each component along with necessary APIs. More advanced material, such as optimizing repainting of Swing controls and techniques for more efficient tables, will be useful to any Swing developer.

Most computer books use either code excerpts or full-length programs. For the main text of The JFC Swing Tutorial, short code examples are the norm, but with over 300 pages of complete programs in an appendix, this book will also please those who appreciate more complete examples.

Efficient and thorough, this book succeeds in making JFC/Swing enjoyable while imparting a good deal of necessary information. Armed with this book, any intermediate to advanced Java programmer can make sense of today's Swing with a minimum of effort. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: JFC basics, compiling and running JFC programs, JFC applets and applications, pluggable look-and-feel options, layout managers, event listeners and event handling, graphics, images, animation and painting, threads, JComponent, frames and top-level containers, basic and advanced JFC components, tables, trees, models and custom editors, accessibility APIs, and converting code from AWT to JFC.

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This book is not necessary to learn Swing 13. Dezember 1999

Von MC Srivas

Format:Taschenbuch

Be aware that the material in this book is a cut-and-paste of Sun's Java Tutorial, which is available free from java.sun.com.

The swing docs as well as the tutorial alone, are insufficient to learn Swing. The material is very skimpy, and does not explain the event handling and update interactions.

A few of the examples in the Tutorial were useful, but most were trivial. The book is pages and pages of generally simple code. If you do not have a fast connection and would rather have a book handy, I would still download the Java DOCs from Sun and install them on my local disk instead.

What I found useful were the demo examples that come with the JDK. I am still looking for a good swing book.

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A beter Swing "tutor" is hard to find 15. Februar 2000

Von Brian Bowman

It is clear to me that tutorial (i.e. an aide to "tutor") is what defines this book's purpose. While I agree with the other reviewer's comments about what this book lacks, I would like to complement the authors on what I believe is the greatest benefit of "The JFC Swing Tutorial". This is it seems that no matter problem I'm having with a particular aspect of Swing, this book gives me a "place to start" (isn't this what a tutor is for?). Yes, there are some gaps in its explanation of the Abstract/Default Table and TableColumn Model classes and some of the Event Handling material is too terse, etc.

However, time and time again, I've been in able to jump into this book "mid-trail" and wind up "on course" for solving a Swing-related problem. Some times the journey leads me to the constituent WEB Pages. Other times it's a trip into a JAVA IDE Debugger and/or a look at the javax.swing class soruce files. In any case this book has been the tutor I needed to learn Swing fundamentals and has led me to discover some advanced Swing features as well.

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Excellent reference! 15. Dezember 1999

Von Mark Chang

OK, the book is available online from Sun's Java website. Also the book as a hybrid of hytertext (with underlined 'links' everywhere) and a regular book is not well-organized. Nevertheless, I found it a useful reference. The code examples are very useful. The companion CD provides various Java documentation and the other 2 Java Tutorials. The book and CD are great for people who prefer portable references or don't have high-speed connection 24 hours a day. There just aren't many (or any) good Java Swing books and this is one of the better ones.