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Core Swing: Advanced Programming Review by anonymous
Very good, rather specialized, advanced book
This book was wisely focused on selected advanced Swing topics, rather than trying to be comprehensive. I suspect Kim Topley could write two or three additional books with a similar level of detail on other advanced Swing topics, and it was sensible not to write 2500 pages all at once.
_If_ the focus topics (everything you might want to know about text components, table cell renderers and editors, drag-and-drop, undo/redo) are of interest to you, you won't find a better text anywhere, explicitly including all the Swing tutorials available on the Web. This is not a Swings basics book, but it _is_ an excellent how-to, and often why-to, book. Lots of code examples, lots of explanation.
Let me repeat: This is not a Swing basics book. The emphasis is not on how to apply the stock JFC components, but rather on how to customize, modify and extend the JFC components. For example, instead of just saying "JFC drag-and-drop support is limited primarily to raw text", Topley shows you how to implement support for d-d of whatever data types you are interested in. Actual d-d data interchange representations are not discussed, as that is highly platform- and datatype-specific.