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KoomValley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.

But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution.And darkness is following him....

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Title: Java Swing
Author: Marc LoyRobert EcksteinDave WoodJames ElliottBrian Cole
ISBN: 0596004087
EAN: 9780596004088
2. Edition
1280 Pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2002-11-20

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In bygone days programmers reckoned 10 per cent of the effort went into the program and 90 per cent into its user interface. Most modern programming environments build user interfaces on the fly--apart from Java which is weak and provides inconsistent classes in this area. But no more.

Swing is completely written in Java to avoid platform dependencies and is designed to make interfaces to Java programs easy to create; but in itself it's complex. The authors take 1200 pages to explain it all, beginning with an apology for any confusion on version numbering and availability - Swing is still a moving target.

Java Swing starts by describing changes from the AWT classes. It also introduces, describes and provides usage examples of the new Swing classes and interfaces. Along with the basics are a number of complete Swing applications, including a text editor. By the time you reach the end of the book you're already modifying the basic interface to provide a customised look and feel for applications.

The authors claim there will be a new version when Swing settles down with final package names and a "finished" release for JDK 1.1. Don't wait. You need Java Swing now. --Steve Patient

2008-02-07 Don't buy to learn Swing

I bought this book last week to learn Swing, and gave up on it today. It's really a reference manual. My advice would be that if you need a comprehensive reference manual with code examples, pictures, and lists of classes, this appears to be pretty good. If you want to learn Swing as a beginner with the APIs, look elsewhere.