Up to Speed with Swing: User Interfaces with Java Foundation Classes

this is one fo the really good books on Swing. Nevermind ath it's slightly out of date..the writing here is very very high quality nad you'll come away with a great foundation. His "useful groupsings" of methods together into meaningful categories is so much better than the API dumps a lot of other books are...

This book is great for people like me who are just getting started with Swing. I recommend it highly if you know awt but now want to stay with the times and use Swing.

I really like to give credits to this book. It is a very good book for people who know Java already but have not yet stepped into Swing. It saved me a lot of time in understanding what Swing is and how Swing works. Nobody could become a Swing master by reading a single Swing book. In my opion, this is terrific Swing book to start with.

I'm an experienced Window GUI programmer who switched to Java couple of weeks ago. Within a week, this book really guide me "up to speed" to swing as it promises. In real world, you want to absorb core concept & examples as soon as possible and pick up real stuff while coding based on them. I couldn't find any significant "neat" tricks from "Core JFC"(which is thick enough to please some people) and this is not a ref anyway. Org & examples are neat and Guts knows how to get to the point without wasting your time. One of the best considering the current status of swing itself.

Up To Speed With Swing is a necessary companion to any serious Java GUI programmer (beginning or advanced). It covers basic implementation details of components as well as key features that expose the power and flexibility unique to Swing.I've been working with Swing since December '97 and have had numerous issues (important issues) that I was forced to leave dangling until I could find someone with a solution. SwingSet (a demo with source code included with SUN's Swing package) provides some insight, but it does not cover many critical areas. Up to Speed with Swing has provided me with, amazingly enough, every single solution I was looking for. I have even been able to come up with a few real neat tricks of my own on top of that. Without this book I would have been left at a standstill. Now I am moving at a very rapid pace, and having more fun because of it. Up To Speed With Swing is "thick" in content and undoubtedly deserves the best rating I can give.