Mixing real-world code examples and expert advice on advanced features, this book shows how to take advantage of this powerful library effectively within your own project. The best thing about this text should be the sample programs, many of which incorporate other Java APIs to do "real" work. (Many of the examples raised in separate steps, showing off a Swing class and new features along the way.) The authors do an excellent job of annotating code with clear explanations referenced with bullets numbers indicate important lines of code. Another important feature here is the material on extending basic Swing functionality through custom code. The authors show you how) There are examples to improve Swing with custom layout manager and a lot of samples that extend trees and tables, and even a section on the basics of creating new pluggable look and feel (PLAF) modules for Swing .. With the material here, in almost every component and API, plus advanced coverage on using and extending Swing, this in-depth tutorials will prove to be indispensable resources -. Richard Dragan Topics covered: Overview of Swing and the JFC, and light heavyweight control, Model View Controller (MVC) architecture, Swing pluggable look and feel (PLAF), component size, the handover ceremony and multithreading problems, timers, graphics debugging, paintings and validation , the focus of management, methods SwingUtilities, frames, panels and borders, built-ins and custom layout managers, labels and buttons, tabbed panels, scrolling and split panel, comboboxes and listboxes, text components, Swing cancel support, menus and toolbars, progress bar and slider, JPEG editing, custom dialog boxes and standard-coated panels, custom and built-in support MDI, trees, tables (basic and advanced features), advanced component programming text, RTF sample words. processors, printing, and Java2D API fundamentals.