"The authors have done an excellent job of mapping out the territory and explaining the standard patterns that make Swing great. I love the way they have gone beyond just laying out the APIs to covering issues about what makes a good user interface - what makes an appication easy to understand and use. And they go beyond the usual snippets of code to complete applications. This is a great way to inter-relate all of the parts of the Swing API. "

Swing has something for all Java audiences, but is mainly intended for experienced and advanced GUI developers. Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant classes and interfaces, often interspersed with small example applications to demonstrate key features. The remainder is then devoted to extensive, real-world examples that are explained thoroughly and are often built on top of one another. These examples are the main thrust of this book and make up most of its content. 

Each Swing component is covered in depth with several accompanying examples. We have also identified five areas of Swing that deserve significantly more attention than others due to their size and complexity: the text package, the tree package, the table package, MDI environments, and pluggable look and feel. Thus, you will find the examples of this material particularly extensive. Additionaly, we have included special topics chapters on Printing, XML, and Drag & Drop -- all in terms of Swing.

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