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  • Paperback: 1600 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (9 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0130796670
  • ISBN-13: 978-0130796677
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.5 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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If you're developing software that will be used by a large group of people, you need to give it a good- looking front end--in Java 2, that means you have to use Swing. An excellent resource, Graphic Java 2: Mastering the JFC, Third Edition (Volume 2: Swing) takes on the Swing components one at a time and shows you how to incorporate them into attractive, efficient programs.

In many ways, Graphic Java 2 is a cookbook. You search the table of contents or index for a reference to the kind of problem you want to solve, then examine the author's examples for the solution (or at least some clues to it). This is the book to turn to if you're wondering how to implement the JComboBox Key Selection Manager interface (which enables users to select items in a combo box) or compare the various ways of making the JTree component into a file browser. Those are just two of hundreds of examples in David Geary's book.

While most examples don't serve any practical purpose by themselves, they do clearly illustrate how a specific aspect of Swing works. It's easy to adapt the details presented here into your own programs. Geary shows consideration for the reader by presenting all his examples as programs that can be compiled, and including them on the enclosed CD-ROM. --David Wall, Amazon.com

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Graphic Java 2 is quite simply the most comprehensive guide to the Java Foundation Classes available. Written for experienced programmers looking for thorough and detailed explanations of the JFC libraries, Volume 2 covers all aspects of the swing framework. Swing is the long-awaited successor to the AWT's heavyweight components. It provides many components that AWT developers could previously only dream about -- or purchase -- such as Tooltips, tables, trees, sliders, a complete document framework, and more. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Swing framework, the designs behind it, and the use of Swing components. Thousands of experienced Java developers are ready to move beyond AWT's limits. This book shows them how to do so. Together with Graphic Java Volume 1 (AWT) and Volume 3 (2D API), it gives developers all the tools they need to build professional, customizable cross-platform applications that fully leverage the new Java Foundation Classes -- and to deliver those applications fast.



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2.0 out of 5 stars pass the syrup, there's soooo much waffle..., 31 Jul 2000
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I read the reviews above and wonder how this book can be so recomended. I can only assume that the competition is dreadful. This book could have been cut to half of its (huge) size and still say everything it needs to. Every point is made four or five times, in quick succession. It reminds me too much of the old MS-Windows GUI book, good as a doorjam and not much else. OK, so it lists the components and gives an idea of how to use them. However it does so quite poorly, and always in a confused manner. As I said above, this book could have been written with so much rubbish taken out. If it was better edited and provided more examples, including more detail, then it would have so much better. I'd wager that this book would never have made past the bin at O'Reilly.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is really a great book, 8 Aug 2001
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A common mistake is to judge this 'heavyweight'-book as a reference book to place on your shelf for later lookups - but this is not the case.

I recommend that you read it first. From one end to another. When you have read it, it's superb for use as a reference.

hjembaek

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, although too much repetition and unused paper, 6 April 1999
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars One for the Reference shelf
This was the first serious Swing book that I could find that really covered pretty much everything: Geary clearly knows his stuff. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2000 by john@cozens77.swinternet.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a must for new developers
When I first got this book I was expecting good things, from the outset the book explains things in depth (sometimes it is too in depths and proceeds to waffle). Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2000 by lightning_rod

3.0 out of 5 stars 20 min Review
I received this book this morning from Amazon, and had 20-25 minutes to get an initial impression. If I can't find useful info within that time frame, then the book is probably... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and fundamental swing coverage
The best Java Swing book
Published on 3 Sep 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for development using Swing
Being a new comer to object oriented concepts and gui, this book has helped me a great deal in understanding the inner working of the Swing components. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Swing!!
If you want to learn and make Swing applications this is the best book. However the size was what made me give this book four stars.
Published on 30 Aug 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody great!!!
This book is bulky (and quite dawnting at first), however it is easy to read and the explainations and examples were very helpful. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost Everything You'd Want To Know About Swing. . . .
This book was a great resource for learning more about Swing, it's underlying mechanics, and the Model-View-Controller architecture it uses. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great...the Swing bible
The book is great, with tons of details. However, I agree with another reviewer that this books is too thick! Read more
Published on 30 Jul 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the book i was looking for!...
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