Although "Pure JFC Swing" is 800 pages, more than half the book is a reference to the
Swing API. As a reference it is mostly useless. The pages are not labeled and the classes
are listed by package so it is almost impossible to find a class without using the index.
Each class contains only the signature of each method with no explanation as to how the
method might be used which limits its usefulness. The Sun online API is a much better reference.
The first half of the book is an introduction to Swing and this is what makes the book worth its
very reasonable price. The book starts off with a nice introduction to Swing and the MVC
architecture. The author then discusses some of the basic Swing classes. This section of
the book features a good discussion of panes but like most of this section it leaves you
wanting more. The author has an excellent writing style and gives good, clear examples for
each of the classes but each topic ends too soon. Also, too many topics are not included in
this book. This book could have been an excellent book. If the publisher had abandoned the
idea of supplying a reference and had let Dr. Pantham have the entire 800 pages, this would
have been a much better book. If you plan on doing a little work with Swing and you're looking
for a light introduction, this book may serve that purpose. (Thomas Paul - bartender, March 2001)
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