Swing Hacks (Hacks)

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

Head First Design Patterns

Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

Swing, Second Edition

Jfc And Swing

The Definitive Guide to Java Swing, Third Edition (Definitive Guide)

Format: Paperback
Author: John Zukowski
ReleaseDate: 13 June, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Decent, but sorely lacking as a tutorial
The problem is that there is no examples of a complete GUI, especially real life examples. This book is an alright reference, but a poor tutorial. Sadly, this a a flaw in many other Java books, Head First Java is particularily bad in this regard.

What these types of books need is a full blown example, one that has a menu bar, tool bar, and multiple items on one or more panels, complete with layout and listeners.

A book like this must be a nightmare for a total beginners, having to piece together info from all over the book.

OK - Not great
For new comers to Java SWING, however, it does a poor job of explaining what the components are and when to use them. The book is good for examples of using various SWING components. It makes references to AWT but if you don't know AWT, it doesn't help. I found more useful information in that area from Sun's website. Sun's website also does a better job of explaining SWING's architecture and how it fits into MVC architecture.

Good, but not good enough
. It's a good book, have a excelent content and several components of swing, but does have enough code line for swing component, just a few line for componet, but not the whole code to use that component.