Jfc And Swing

Pure JFC Swing

Format: Paperback
Author: Dr. Satyaraj Pantham
ReleaseDate: 01 February, 1999
Publisher: Sams
Rating:

Introducing Swing + quick class reference
It assumes you know Java programming and helps you to get started using Swing. This book is good as an introductory read with a good bit of source code. 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.

Good book for reference
Also it was very cheap as compared to some of the other expensive swing books. Got this book and so far I like it! It is good as a reference on Java swing components.Author has added lot of examples. Use this book if you already know somthing abt Java Swing and want to sharpen up some specific GUI areas.

Almost 50% of the book is dedicated to the API reference on various AWT and SWING components. In my opinion, all this information is available on SUN's website.

In short, this is a very good book for Swing reference which also costs less!!.

Could have been good - but it is cheap
As a reference it is mostly useless. Although "Pure JFC Swing" is 800 pages, more than half the book is a reference to the Swing API. The pages are not labeled and the classes are listed by package so it is almost impossible to find a class without using the index. Each class contains only the signature of each method with no explanation as to how the method might be used which limits its usefulness. The Sun online API is a much better reference. The first half of the book is an introduction to Swing and this is what makes the book worth its very reasonable price. The book starts off with a nice introduction to Swing and the MVC architecture. The author then discusses some of the basic Swing classes. This section of the book features a good discussion of panes but like most of this section it leaves you wanting more. The author has an excellent writing style and gives good, clear examples for each of the classes but each topic ends too soon. Also, too many topics are not included in this book. This book could have been an excellent book. If the publisher had abandoned the idea of supplying a reference and had let Dr. Pantham have the entire 800 pages, this would have been a much better book. If you plan on doing a little work with Swing and you're looking for a light introduction, this book may serve that purpose.