Jfc And Swing

Jfc: Java Foundation Classes

Format: Paperback
Author: Daniel I. Joshi
ReleaseDate: May, 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
Rating:

It worked for me
I have about 5 Java books on my desk. I am new to the OOLanguage world. When I try to get an explaination I read until I find one that has examples and speaks plain enough for a novist. Out of all my books this book was the only one that addressed JProgress Bars and it was plain enough for me to apply it to my code.

I also used this book - from all my others to explain interfaces and abstracts.

Good reference book and in plain english for someone coming from the structured language field.

Good for novices and tinkerers. Engineers require more depth
I'm still looking. I was looking for a book that would explain some of the more abstract and undocumented areas of the JFC like using the Action interface. This book is a little too basic for me. To be fair, I haven't read the chapters on printing and JDBC.

Some of the tips are helpfull but I find that reading the javadoc and the swing connection provides a great deal of more information. However, I'm looking forward to Geary's JFC book when it's released. His Java 1. 1 AWT book was the best book about the AWT that I've read.

I'm looking for a book that would explain how to design Java UI's from an architectural perspective rather that the details and placement of widgets. More details about desining and changing the models associated with the delegates would be nice. Maybe I should write it.

A fine tutorial
Though it's not a comprehensive reference, this book does explain how to perform lots of popular JFC tasks. The best way to learn about a new tool (which is what the JFC are) is to watch someone work with it.

There are some cool examples involving network resources and displaying raster graphics.

Code is presented in an example-and-commentary format, so you can see what he's doing overall before he explains it piece-by-piece.