Java Foundation Classes in the short to provide the documentation necessary to understand the most important features of Swing and serves as a handy reference for each class, package, and method. Early chapters compare the basics of AWT and Swing, including the architecture of each, plus the new possibilities for the user interface offered by Swing today. brief examples and explanations are clear, somewhat dryly written, providing a starting point to learn Swing. The core of this book is 500 pages of reference material for any Java Swing (and AWT) package, class, and method. There are also some nice graphics, showing the relationship of the Swing classes to each other. In all, the Java Foundation Classes in short provides a valuable reference for today's Swing classes Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: JFC / Swing 1.1 and AWT basic, components, layout managers, events, Swing features advanced user interfaces, serialization, AWT and Java2D graphics, shapes, image buffers, affine transformation, printing, data transfer (cut-and -paste and drag-and-drop, applet basis, JDK 1.1 and Java 2 API and packages reference class), the UI class, pluggable-look-and-feel, API figures, tables and trees, text, and HTML viewer class.