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Swing Books (Introductory)
This section contains a short overview of popular books on Swing and Java GUI related topics. For more information and reviews, click on a book image. If you have read any of these books and would like to leave a comment, please do so as a footnote (check syntax for a descriptions how to make footnotes). To add a new book to this page, please contact info@swingwiki.org.
This section is split into 5 pages for faster access: Expert, References/Advanced, Introductory,Related APIs, Algorithms/Game programming.
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Java Swing by Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, Dave Wood, James Elliott, Brian Cole (1278 pages, 2002) covers basics of GUI building, introduces Swing internals and then presents most of the common Swing components |
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The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs by Kathy Walrath, Mary Campione, Alison Huml, Sharon Zakhour. Second edition, published 2004, contains 800 pages. Official tutorial from Sun, with a hands-on introduction giving readers a taste of Swing in the first chapters and then working on all major components with a “How to …” reference. Ends with a troubleshooting guide. |
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Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces with Java Swing by Paul Fisher is a relatively short tutorial (300 pages) of Swing basics, that should give readers the foundation to experiment further on their own. In the ending chapters, this book also describes some more advanced features, like threading and printing. |