- Paperback: 976 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (17 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201433214
- ISBN-13: 978-0201433210
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,146,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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Developed and co-written by the lead writer on the Swing team, this book covers everything you need to know to write GUIs that use Swing components. The JFC Swing Tutorial uses a task-oriented, example-driven approach to introduce you to fundamental concepts and applications. Designed to be read either cover-to-cover or as a quick reference, this book explains how to use each Swing component, perform layout, do basic drawing, and convert 1.1 AWT programs to Swing. This book covers Swing 1.1.1.
An appendix lists the complete source code for dozens of example applications and applets. The CD-ROM includes Swing 1.1.1, JDK 1.1, the Java 2 Platform, and the hypertext version of all three Java Tutorial books.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is exactly what I was looking for. I had already experience with the AWT (the previous windowing toolkit of Java) and needed a quick, in-depth tutorial. The book is thorough and clear written with enough examples. The example sources on the CD-ROM are also printed in the book, which I found very helpful. This book enabled me to write a complete user interface framework for a big customer and could answer all my questions, from simple to very specific issues.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Clearly written and with each part explained wonderfully. I've used Swing before and just picked up this book because it lying around the office, it provided me with some very useful facts in the short time I spent reading through it. I shall be using it as a reference in the future as well. As for the code in the back, I always find printed word easier to read personally.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is for anyone who has programmed Java, maybe with the AWT, and is looking for an introduction to Swing. It is heavier than it needs be because of the code listings but this does release the reader from their computer. The topics are laid out in a sensible way and covered to a reasonable depth to allow a programmer to start producing Swing code. Primarily a study book, and a good one, but can be used as a reference because of its API samples. A book like "Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell" makes a better reference.
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This is not a beginners tutorial
I have about 50 books on computing going back as far as Dreamweaver3. This is by and far the worst book I have ever come across. Read more
Published on 8 July 2009 by P. kelly
Very Disappointing
After reading The Java Programming Language -The Java Programming Language (Java Series) - which IMO is an extraordinarily well written book which follows a logical, linear path... Read more
Published on 30 April 2009 by M. Truss
Pants for the Beginner
I purchased this book on the strength of the reviews previously given, I wanted clear concise text coupled with good code so I could see how the whole learnings fit together. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2007 by PureSymmetry
Second edition, better than the first.
The second edition still has the clean informative style but it has been brought up to the Java 2 v.1.4.2 platform and the layout has been improved. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2006 by P. B. Lewis
Become an expert in minutes
By far the best java educational book i have found to date. All information is clearly described and the complete code listings allow you to be removed from the shackles of a... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2005 by Kieran Marron
A book of code and apis
For anyone thinking of buying this book please remember that the final 400 pages of this 1000 page book contain java code printout which I assume you can get off the cd which comes... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2000
This is a great book
This is a book for all to read. Whethe you are a programmer or an analyst this book is a must read.
Published on 22 July 1999
Simply and easily explained complicated material
This is the best Swing book that I have read thus far. I used it as a jump start to object-oriented GUI programming. It shortened the learning curve considerably. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 1999
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