A Java GUI Programmers' Primer

Culwin, Fintan

ISBN 10: 0139088490 ISBN 13: 9780139088490

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

For intermediate or secondary Java programming courses, as well as courses involving graphical user interfaces.

This book is intended to allow readers with some experience in C++ or Java to learn to use the Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) to develop applets and applications which have a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

About this title

About the Author

FINTAN CULWIN, Ph.D., is a Reader in Software Engineering at the South Bank University, London, actively researching software engineering and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He is the author of several books, including Java: An Object First Approach, Prentice Hall, 1998. Dr. Culwin has given a series of papers, workshops, and tutorials on Java and GUI design at major international conferences.

From the Back Cover

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A Java GUI Programmer's Primer provides an introduction to the design and development of Java artifacts that have a graphical user interface. Written for students and professionals, this book will provide students with initial knowledge of, and skills for, the effective use of the interface components supplied with release 1.1 of the Java language and its Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT).

Emphasizing that the design process must commence with usability considerations and that the software architecture must reflect this overriding concern, author Fintan Culwin includes the following important features:

• UML design notation is consistently used and emphasized.
• Consistent use of release 1.1 of Java and its AWT.
• Interface usability modeled using State Transition Diagrams (STDs).
• Software design by consistent use of class and instance diagrams.
• An example of every 1.1 AWT component included.
• Includes a case study illustrating different use interface styles.
• Internalization and localization techniques are covered.
• A web site to support the book is at http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/jfl

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0139088490
• ISBN 13: 9780139088490
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Number of pages: 322