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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:31:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: "Chan & Lee books"
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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.
# > 
# > 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# This is the best of the three, but is out of date with respect to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.

Granted all of them are out of date since it takes nearly a year
to write a good book and get it published.  However I wouldn't say
they weren't good (not perfect maybe), but as a reference they
provide a bit of good information.  Some will say nothing is ever
as good as the source and I got mine yesterday so I'm set. :)

-steve


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