Up to Speed with Swing - Softcover

Gutz, Steven; Robinson, Matthew; Vorobiev, Pavel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884777759 ISBN 13: 9781884777752

Publisher: Manning Pubns Co, 1999

Synopsis

Solutions and answers to realworld concerns and questions of Java programmers working with the Swing interface.

About this title

Review

Stephen Gutz's competent book about one of Java's graphical user interface (GUI)-building technologies covers everything you'd want in a Swing book--layouts, events, all the components, and more. Gutz focuses on the interface components, detailing buttons, text elements, and tables. Throughout, his code is clear and easy to follow, and a chapter about look-and-feel programming is excellent.

The Web resources that support this book are what distinguish it from the crowd of Swing books. Gutz monitors and participates in a question-and-answer forum on the Manning site. Java programmers post questions in this forum, and other programmers--including Gutz, who seems quite active--reply with solutions and advice. The site appears to be quite heavily used, yet with a good signal-to-noise ratio. The Q&A forum is only one piece of the site--it also features the illustrative code from the book, an errata page, and an Adobe Acrobat copy of the text. The publisher restricts access to the Web site by prompting you for a particular word from the book before assigning you a username and password.

Thanks to the Web site and Gutz's participation there, it's almost as though you get free consulting time when you buy this book. --David Wall

About the Author

Robinson is the author of a monthly on-line column at the Swing Connection and works as an engineer for WebScope, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Pubns Co
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884777759
• ISBN 13: 9781884777752
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 536