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

1. Really well written

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, August 12th, 1999

   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 Nevermind ath it's slightly out of date..the writing here is very very high quality nad you'll come away with a great foundation.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...

2. author online is cool

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 1999

   the author answers your programming questions in online forum and everybody helps out - plus the book is pretty good if you only know older java gui stuff

3. Out of date but I think its the best swing introductory book

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 1999

   I have other swing books but this was the first one out and it is the best book at keeping you in tune with gui development. The other books I have are great once you spend tons of time with them but are so detail oriented that its frustrating. This book was good when I needed to learn and its also good to look at because it has user interface design tips. I think interface design is also an art and shouldnt be treated as such a science. This book gives good suggestions at how to make the interface nicer for average users. The only complaint I have is that it is out of date for JDK1.2 but since another edition is coming out I will buy that one.

4. Great way to get started using Swing...

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 1999

   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.

5. Definitely gets you started...

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 1999

   For an experienced Java developer programming with the AWT components, this book is a quick reference to get you started using the Swing components. It 's light reading but gives you enough detail to understand the basic concepts and components in Swing.

   Once you've read through the entire book you'll have no problem transitioning to the Swing components. The code samples are simple and straight-forward, although not very useful when looking for more complicated, practical, real-life examples, but it's a start in the right direction. The book was one of the first Swing references released.

   Definitely worth the money!