This programmer's companion includes a tutorial designed for a non-novice to quickly start using Swing. Heavy cross-indexing means that the programmer can find related classes starting from any one of them. It also includes detailed coverage of accessibility and pluggable look and feel.
Swing grows upHi there, welcome to the Amazon page for my book with Bill Wake.
Bill and I spent a full year working on this book. We started working on it at Swing 0.7, and the final product is up to date with JDK 1.2 (and 1.2.1).
That year was spent reading _all_ of the Swing code, to figure out what it actually did rather than what it was supposed to do. We didn't simply dump the JavaDoc to make this book; we re-wrote _every entry_ to reflect our full understanding of how the APIs actually worked. I'm sure Bill will agree when I say that I now know more about Swing than I ever expected to ;) .Hope you enjoy the book!