From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jan 7 21:16:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03355 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03348 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA05703; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:15:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA26755; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:15:23 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:15:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199901080515.WAA26755@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Price Cc: Nate Williams , Chuck Robey , Ian Grigg , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Chan & Lee books" In-Reply-To: References: <199901080428.VAA26549@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > # No Swing either, but there are *NO* good books on Swing, given that the > # final release was made about a month ago. > > I beg to differ. Besides some pretty good (albeit dated) stuff > on the java website, I have six books on the JFC (Swing). Three > of which happen to be pretty good. > > Core Java Foundation Classes by Kim Topley, Prentice Hall, 1998, > ISBN 0130803014. This is the best of the three, but is out of date with respect to JDK1.2. > Graphic Java 1.2: Mastering the JFC: AWT (Java Series), Prentice > Hall, 1998, ISBN 0130796662. I saw this, but didn't like it much. > Java Swing by Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, Dave Wood, O'Reilly & > Associates, 1998, ISBN 156592455X. > > I happen to like the last one the most, but then again I really > value almost every book I have that was published by the good > folks at O'Reilly. :) If this is the same O'Reilly book that I saw on Swing, I thought it was worthless. I used to think that everything they published was gold, but as of late I think they're putting out a lesser product. Unfortunately, this is to be expected given the volume of the stuff they crank out now. As I stated before, any Swing book you get will be out of date due to the latest Swing release. The changes between Swing 1.0.3 and Swing1.1 are pretty significant. Almost as much as the changes between JDK1.0 and JDK1.1. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message