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9/11/03 Manning is now printing a third batch of 2nd Edition books to meet demand. We are happy to hear that this edition is selling even faster than the first!
3/1/03 According to Manning, the first edition was a bestseller and the second edition has started off with a solid pipeline of orders. Meanwhile, after a visit to Barnes & Noble it looks like the 2nd edition has finally made its way into bookstores.
11/4/02 We're happy to announce that the 2nd edition is finally being published and will be shipped to stores and online resellers in Feb., 2003. We are also proud to have James Gosling as author of this edition's foreword.
12/3/01 The first draft of the second edition is approaching completion. We have many new examples, revised text and additional material to bring the book up to date with J2SE 1.4. For example we are covering JSpinner, JFormattedTextField, the new Focus and Keyboard architectures, scrollable tabbed panes, variable height JTable rows, indeterminate progress bars, etc. One of the biggest changes is the replacement of the RTF Word Processor chapter with a new chapter on constructing an HTML Editor application. There will also be two new chapters on Drag and Drop and Constructing an XML editor with Swing.
5/4/01 The book has been translated into Korean and Manning sent us copies. Cover scans: [Front] [Back]
5/1/01 Four free copies were given away this week to participants in the JavaRanch JFC/AWT/Swing forum.
1/27/01 Manning printed a third batch of books and completed formatting the HTML version of the manuscript. We really appreciate it and Manning sent him a complimentary book for the help.
1/3/01 A Spanish translation is underway at http://www.javahispano.org/swing.status.action?type=swing
6/1/00 A summarized version of chapter 22 appeared in the June issue of Java Report magazine.
3/23/00 Chapters 18 and 22 featured at Sun's Java Developer Connection.
12/2/99 Book production finished. Shipped to stores and online resellers.
About the Book

"The authors have done an excellent job of mapping out the territory and explaining the standard patterns that make Swing great. I love the way they have gone beyond just laying out the APIs to covering issues about what makes a good user interface - what makes an appication easy to understand and use. And they go beyond the usual snippets of code to complete applications. This is a great way to inter-relate all of the parts of the Swing API. "

James Gosling
Vice President and Sun Fellow
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
JavaSoft Division

Swing has something for all Java audiences, but is mainly intended for experienced and advanced GUI developers. Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant classes and interfaces, often interspersed with small example applications to demonstrate key features. The remainder is then devoted to extensive, real-world examples that are explained thoroughly and are often built on top of one another. These examples are the main thrust of this book and make up most of its content. 

Each Swing component is covered in depth with several accompanying examples. We have also identified five areas of Swing that deserve significantly more attention than others due to their size and complexity: the text package, the tree package, the table package, MDI environments, and pluggable look and feel. Thus, you will find the examples of this material particularly extensive. Additionaly, we have included special topics chapters on Printing, XML, and Drag & Drop -- all in terms of Swing.
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Second Edition - Chapter Updates and Examples

EXAMPLES: swing2e.zip: All 2nd Edition chapter examples (6.0 MB). 

The ZIP files below include all 2nd edition examples. Each ZIP file also contains an MS Word document detailing some of the changes and additions from the 1st edition to the 2nd. These documents are not complete chapters - to obtain complete 2nd edition chapters the book must be purchased.
Chapter 1: Swing Overview
Chapter 2: Swing Mechanics
Chapter 3: Frames, Panels and Borders
Chapter 4: Layout Managers
Chapter 5: Labels and Buttons
Chapter 6: Tabbed Panes
Chapter 7: Scrolling Panes
Chapter 8: Split Panes
Chapter 9: Combo Boxes
Chapter 10: List Boxes and Spinners
Chapter 11: Text Components and Undo
Chapter 12: Menus, Toolbars and Actions
Chapter 13: Progress Bars, Sliders and Scroll Bars
Chapter 14: Dialogs
 
Chapter 15: Layered Panes
Chapter 16: Desktops and Internal Frames
Chapter 17: Trees
Chapter 18: Tables
Chapter 19: Inside Text Components
Chapter 20: Constructing an HTML Editor Application
Chapter 21: Pluggable Look and Feel
Chapter 22: Printing
Chapter 23: Constructing an XML Editor
Chapter 24: Drag and Drop
Appendix A: Java Web Start
Appendix B: Resources
Bibliography
 
First Edition - Chapters and Examples

Note that the material freely available here represents Swing in its final stages of development before it was sent to Manning's copyeditors and typesetters. The actual book available for purchase features significant improvements in formatting and presentation, including annotated code callouts (see PDF chapters above).

CHAPTERS: swingdoc.zip: All chapters in Word '97 format (2.7 MB). 
EXAMPLES: swing.zip: All chapter examples (7.0 MB). 
 
  • Click on  to download individual chapter ZIP archive: includes all examples.
  • Click on HTML to view chapter online.
  • Click on blue hyperlink to download the chapter in Word '97 format.

Front Matter
Part I. Introduction

N/A HTML 1. Swing Overview
HTML 2. Swing Mechanics
 
Part II. The Basics
 
HTML 3. Frames, Panels and Borders
HTML 4. Layouts
GridBagLayout coverage by James Tan
HTML 5. Labels and Buttons
HTML 6. Tabbed Panes
HTML 7. Scrolling Panes
HTML 8. Split Panes
HTML 9. Combo Boxes
HTML 10. List Boxes
HTML 11. Text Components and Undo
HTML 12. Menus, Toolbars and Actions
HTML 13. Progress Bars, Scroll Bars and Sliders
HTML 14. Dialogs
Part III. Advanced Topics
 
HTML 15. Layered Panes and Custom MDI
HTML 16. Desktops and Internal Frames
HTML 17. Trees
HTML 18. Tables
HTML 19. Inside Text Components
Date and Time editor by David Karr
HTML 20. Constructing a Word Processor
HTML 21. Pluggable Look & Feel
 
Part IV. Special Topics
 
HTML 22. Printing
HTML 23. Java2D
HTML 24. Accessibility
HTML 25. JavaHelp
HTML 26. Swing and CORBA
HTML 27. Contributions
by Albert Ting and Ron Widitz
 
Appendix A. Sources of Information
Bibliography
UI Guidelines by David Anderson (http://www.uidesign.net/)
Annotated code callouts by David Karr
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