Java Swing (Java (O'Reilly)) - Softcover

Eckstein, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156592455X ISBN 13: 9781565924550

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 1998

Synopsis

The Swing classes eliminate Java's biggest weakness: its relatively primitive user interface toolkit. Swing provides many new components and containers that allow you to build sophisticated user interfaces, far beyond what was possible with AWT. The old components have been greatly improved, and there are many new components, like trees, tables, and even text editors. Java Swing gives you in-depth coverage of everything you need to know to take full advantage of the Swing classes, providing detailed descriptions of every class and interface in the key Swing packages. It shows you how to use all of the new components, allowing you to build state-of-the-art user interfaces. It also discusses how the components implement the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture, so you can understand how the components are designed and subclass them intelligently. Java Swing is more than documentation; it helps you develop code quickly and effectively. Covers Java 2.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Eckstein, an editor at O'Reilly, works mostly on Java books (notably Java Swing) and is also responsible for the XML Pocket Reference and Webmaster in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. In his spare time he has been known to provide online coverage for popular conferences. He also writes articles for JavaWorld magazine. Robert holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and communications from Trinity University. In the past, he has worked for the USAA insurance company and more recently spent four years with Motorola's cellular software division. He is the co-author of Using Samba.

Marc Loy is a senior programmer at Galileo Systems, LLC, but his day job seems to be teaching Java and Perl to various companies -- including Sun Microsystems. He has played with Java since the alpha days and can't find his way back to C. He is developing an interactive learning application at Galileo written entirely in Java. He received his master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and still lives in Madison with his partner, Ron Becker. He does find time to relax by playing the piano and/or throwing darts, depending on how successful the day of teaching or programming was.

David Wood has been working as a software engineer since 1993. He lives in Denver, CO and currently works for Amazon as a Software Development Engineer.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156592455X
• ISBN 13: 9781565924550
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1258