Swing Hacks (Hacks)

The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, Second Edition

Head First Design Patterns

Hibernate in Action (In Action series)

Effective Java Programming Language Guide

Jfc And Swing

Swing, Second Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Matthew Robinson
ReleaseDate: February, 2003
Publisher: Manning Publications
Rating:

Who is this book for?
Such important topic as search in a tree is totally missing.
It looks this Book's attempt to teach Swing is failed because of:

1) Book plagued with API reprints - always a sign of a weak java book

2) Lack of practical techniques - sorry, but pasting chunks of code does not substitutes putting practical programming methods in organized order

Small Example - in jtree chapter no methods given for tree traversing (only brief info that such a thing exists).

3) Book is too complex and disorganized for a beginner and missing practical tidbits for the solid swing user. As for an advanced user there is too little to be found.

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real world code
The quality of the demo code is good, and more than just toy problems are tackled. This book allows one to quickly go from a Swing amateur to a very competent Swing programmer. I didn't give this book five stars because of the number of typos. While they generally don't detract from understanding the topic at hand, they are annoying.

While this is not a rank beginner book, I do believe it could be useful for someone who has gone through all of the Swing trails in the Java tutorial and written some basic GUI stuff. Before I got this book, the Java tutorial and the Javadoc was all I knew about Swing and I found this book quite digestible.

Great Book - HORRIBLE EDITING
. This book is a MUST have for SWING developers.. . However. . . the editor should be SHOT!!!! SOOO many typos. . . you really have to piece allot of the examples together because of the missing lines of code. When you download the source code. . . . . huge pieces or the most important pieces of the code are there. . . . . BUT NOT IN THE BOOK


Overall, I still have to say it is a great book.