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Chapter 18, Tables, and Chapter 22, Printing, are excerpted from the recently published book, Swing, by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev, and published by Manning Publications Company. (Chapter 18 is available both online and as a downloadable file; and Chapter 22 is available as a downloadable file.)

Note from the authors:

Our goal in writing Swing was to produce a book that contains enough explanation and examples to satisfy the most demanding Swing developer, while still catering to the motivated newcomer. From day one our manuscript has been freely available on the web. By responding and reacting to all feedback and suggestions we received, this book has taken on many diverse perspectives. Together with our own efforts, the Swing developer community has helped shape this book into its current form.

At a time when there are so many Swing books to choose from, it is difficult to claim that a new book on the subject might be worth adding to one's collection. This is why we chose to write a fast-paced, example-based book that takes the reader farther than just the basics of learning how to work with the API. Swing covers this ground quickly, but focuses mainly on the construction of realistic Swing-based applications. These examples can often serve as starting points for more involved projects, and several are continually extended and enhanced as the book progresses.

Chapters 18 and 22 (covering tables and printing respectively) are presented here to demonstrate the capabilities of Swing that are typically left unrevealed in other Swing books. Chapter 18 brings the reader up to speed rather quickly with the JTable API, and then steps through the construction of a stocks table application, an expense report editor, and a JavaBeans property editor. Chapter 22 covers the Java 2 printing API in terms of Swing, and shows how it can be used to write a custom-print preview component, print multiple page images, print styled text, and print tables (building on the stocks table application from Chapter 18). The custom-print preview component can be easily plugged in to any print-aware Swing-based application, and provides a very convenient mechanism for debugging print code without having to use and actual printer. We hope these chapters prove interesting and useful. Any questions or comments to the authors can be posted at the book's publicly accessible online forum at http://www.manning.com/robinson.

Swing can be purchased from:
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About the Authors

Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev are developers for Netfish Technologies. Robinson is the author of a monthly online column in "The Swing Connection". He recently received the first place award in the 1999 ACM/IBM Quest for Java technology. Vorobiev is a certified Java programming developer and the author of four books about Java programming. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics.