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Swing, Second Edition Review by Benjamin Northrop
Great Reference, Poor Introduction
As I think is mentioned in other reviews, this is a nice comprehensive reference for the Java Swing API. With about equal depth, it covers an abundant range of components: from basic input fields, to dialog boxes, progress bars, trees, and more.
What it is NOT, is an easy introduction to Java Swing. The book dives immediately into the details - method signatures, classes, and interfaces. There is very little background discussion, no running example that is built on, and not much guidance on what the most useful elements of Swing are or how they conceptually fit together. In a nutshell, it assumes you know what Swing is, why you want to use it, and pretty much what you want to use from it.
As a reference, great. As an intro, keep looking.