Swing Second Edition

by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev
May, 2003

Chapter 11, Text Components and Undo | Chapter 20, Constructing an HTML editor application

The JDC is pleased to present two chapters and a quiz from Swing Second Edition by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev, published by Manning Publications Company. Foreword by James Gosling For more information on Swing, read the Swing Tutorial.

About the Book

Swing Second Edition has something for all Java audiences, but is mainly intended for experienced and advanced GUI developers. Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant classes and interfaces, often interspersed with small example applications to demonstrate key features. The remainder is then devoted to extensive, real-world examples that are explained thoroughly and are often built on top of one another. These examples are the main thrust of this book and make up most of its content.

Each Swing component is covered in depth with several accompanying examples. The authors have also identified five areas of Swing that deserve significantly more attention than others due to their size and complexity: the text package, the tree package, the table package, MDI environments, and pluggable look and feel. Thus, you will find the examples of this material particularly extensive. Additionaly, several chapters are included on special topis such as Printing, XML, and Drag & Drop, all in terms of Swing.

About the Chapters

In chapter 11, " Text Components and Undo, " introduces and shows how to use all of the text components, including the new JFormattedTextField component, as well as Swing's undo archictecture.

Chapter 20, " Constructing an HTML editor application," consists of step-by-step examples showing how to use Swing's text and html packages to design a full-features HTML editior, including powerful font, styles, tables, find and replace, and spell check dialogs.

Ordering Information

Manning Publications Company

Barnes and Noble

Amazon.com

SoftPro Computer Books

About the Authors

Matthew Robinson cofounder of Santa Clara-based Recruitforce.com, has four years' experience as a Swing engineer working on enterprise software. He has written numerous contributions to Java books, magazines and academic publications.

Pavel Vorobiev, also a Recruitforce.com cofounder, has 16 years of software development experience at both small and large companies such as Iona, i2 Technologies and Merrill Lynch. He is the co-author of four earlier Java books.

Chapter 11, Text Components and Undo | Chapter 20, Constructing an HTML editor application