The Jfc Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs

by Alison Huml, Sharon Zakhour, Mary Campione, et al.

From the authors of the best-selling Java(TM) Tutorial, here is a guide to using the new Swing components, which are provided by the Java(TM) Foundation Classes (JFC). Developed and co-written by the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201914670
• ISBN13: 9780201914672
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book!!

I've looked at many HORRIBLE Swing books, This one is great and recommended for anyone that is interested in doing anything practical with Swing or Java GUI's other than making a colored triangle in an applet window. I cant stress enough.. BUY THIS BOOK! i'm surprised this didn't have at least a 4 and 1/2 stars. A compliment that I use to work with this book is the Core Java Fundamentals vol.1.

I Second Thomas Duff's Review

The JFC Swing Tutorial Second Edition is among the very best how-to-do it programming books I've read---and I've read scores! For this reason, I felt compelled to write a review of the book, admiring its organization, applauding its authors and encouraging progammers who need to to write Java GUIs to hurry up and by it. But then I read Thomas Duff's review; I became redundant. My recommendation is to read Mr. Duff's excellent review---knowing that I agree with every word of it.

Very good book

I have little experience with AWT and Swing. I got this book to finish my SCJD. The book is excelent reference and tutorial. I like the way the book structured. First chapter it gives an overview of every compnent in Swing, then in the rest of the book it explains these component in details.

The 2nd edition is a great book...

Target AudienceJava developers who want to learn to develop graphical applications using the Swing classesContentsThis book is part of the Sun tutorial series, and concentrates on the Swing classes of the language. The book is divided into the following chapters: Before You Start; Learning Swing By Example; Using Swing Components; Laying Out Components within a Container; Writing Event Listeners; Performing Custom Painting; Component Reference; Layout Manager Reference; Other Swing Features Reference; Event Listeners References; Troubleshooting Reference; IndexReviewMost of the coding I do in Java involves background agents that don't involve any sort of a user interface. But that's not to say that I haven't wanted to put a front end on some of my routines and allow for some user interaction. In order to do that, I need to learn more about how to use the Java GUI classes. This book, The JFC Swing Tutorial, is definitely what I need.The book is a nice blend of tutorial and reference guide. The first six chapters are definitely tutorial in nature, with a number of examples and things you are asked to try and work through. At the end of each of those chapters, you'll find a series of questions and exercises that will allow you to assess your understanding of the material. Starting in chapter seven, the book moves more towards a reference manual, but not in the typical "here's the documentation" format. Each reference section has a series of "How To..." topics that give you more detailed information and examples about that feature. For instance, the formatted text field section has a demo of that feature, instructions on how to work with features in the JFormattedTextField class, and an API chart of the related classes and specific methods in JFormattedTextField. The blend of information and examples helps you to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical use.The only "complaint" that one might have about this book is that much of the information can be found online at the Sun Java site. To that I say, "so what?" When I'm looking up a quick answer to something and I don't have my library available to me, online references are great. But when I'm learning a new skill, give me a book that I can carry around, mark up, and have open in front of me at the keyboard. It's how I work best.ConclusionThis is a very complete and well-written volume on how to use the Swing GUI classes. If you need to learn how to move your Java programming in a graphical direction, you'll like this book.

Anything and Everything you can do with SWING

This is the ultimate starter,tutorial,reference for all your swing applications.Anything and everything you can do with swing is cleary explained.Overall the one-stop guide to become a master of the swing API.