Swing, Second Edition

This book builds on the successful approach of the first edition of Swing, once again taking the power and flexibility of Java's Swing library to its limits. Using a fast-paced style, it starts by introducing each of the Swing components and continues with production-quality code examples in which Swing features are customized, combined, and vigorously exercised to demonstrate real-world usage. With over 400 pages of revised text, additional examples, and new material to bring the book up to date with J2SE 1.4, Swing 2nd edition includes complete coverage of the new JSpinner and JFormattedTextField components, the new Focus and Keyboard architectures, and many other new and enhanced Swing features. Three new chapters have also been added to cover the construction of HTML and XML editor applications, and how to work with the new Drag & Drop architecture.

This book builds on the successful approach of the first edition of Swing, once again taking the power and flexibility of Java's Swing library to its limits. Using a fast-paced style, it starts by introducing each of the Swing components and continues with production-quality code examples in which Swing features are customized, combined, and vigorously exercised to demonstrate real-world usage.

With over 400 pages of revised text, additional examples, and new material to bring the book up to date with J2SE 1.4, Swing Second Edition includes complete coverage of the new JSpinner and JFormattedTextField components, the new Focus and Keyboard architectures, and many other new and enhanced Swing features. Three new chapters have also been added to cover the construction of HTML and XML editor applications, and how to work with the new Drag & Drop architecture.

Intended for experienced and advanced Java developers, more than half of this book consists of example applications that Java developers may encounter on a daily basis. The extensive examples build on top of one another to solve real-world problems. Five key areas of Swing are emphasized: text package, tree package, table package, MDI environments, and pluggable ""look-and-feel."" Also included are discussions of special topics such as Java 2D, the Printing API, Accessibility, and Java. This book will be useful for Java professionals who need solutions to technical problems, Java programmers who want to better understand the capabilities of Swing, and people who are looking to refine their knowledge about Swing as the most modern Java technology. This second edition builds on the successful approach of the first and includes three new chapters that cover the construction of HTML and XML editor applications and how to work with new Drag and Drop architecture. Also includes coverage of the new JSpinner and Jformatted TextField components Introduces the Swing components and explains how to customize, combine, and use the features of the user interface toolkit.