Every experienced Java programmer will find very useful techniques for working with Swing controls and high-level UI features. The zero books on two aspects of Swing interfaces. Sections on extending the Swing table control will let you change how table data is displayed and edited (with coverage of custom renderers and cell editors.) In addition, this book explores features in Swing that allow you to perform advanced user interface operations, such as the drag-and-drop and cancel support. By concentrating on strategies and solutions, and not just the Swing APIs, the author shows not only how to solve certain problems but also the underlying Swing design philosophy, so you can take this library even further in your own programs. If present, this text proves once and for all Swing is ready to take an operating system such as Windows native with support for advanced user features -. Richard Dragan Topics covered: Extending Swing text controls, text wrapping and scrolling, manipulating text documents, input validation, text attributes, highlighter and carets, custom views, Swing HTML support classes, view the HTML editor kits, cascading style sheets and Swing, bi- directional text for international applications, advanced table features in Swing, custom table renderers, table editing and cell editors, drag-and-drop support in Swing, drag sources and drop targets, using tree controls for file information, cancel the support in Swing.