From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jan 7 21:18:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03972 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03963 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:18:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA08242; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:16:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:16:38 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Steve Price cc: Nate Williams , Ian Grigg , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Chan & Lee books" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Steve Price wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > # 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. > > Graphic Java 1.2: Mastering the JFC: AWT (Java Series), Prentice > Hall, 1998, ISBN 0130796662. > > Java Swing by Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, Dave Wood, O'Reilly & > Associates, 1998, ISBN 156592455X. I have Core and the OReilly one, I think maybe Core *might* be better, but I'm not sure. Does anyone put out a cd that has *all* the javadoc from all the versions on it? Sure would be awfully useful. Right now it's taking up lots of disk space. > 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. :) > > -steve > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message