I would recommend: Swing, Second Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Swing-Second-Matthew-Robinson/dp/193011088X/ref=sr _1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267715672&sr=8-5 An oldie but a goodie Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs (Paperback) http://www.amazon.com/Swing-Hacks-Tips-Tools-Killer/dp/0596009070/ref=sr _1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267715672&sr=8-3 And if you're looking to do some fancy transitions, effects have a look at: Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications http://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Clients-Developing-Applications/dp/013 2413930/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267715672&sr=8-7 I'm sure you've come across these frameworks in your travels but if not: Netbeans Platform - http://platform.netbeans.org/ Jide Soft - http://www.jidesoft.com/ Trident - http://kenai.com/projects/trident/pages/Home Fest is a great testing framworks for testing your swing apps: http://code.google.com/p/fest/ And, if you're into Groovy I would be remiss if I didn't point you towards the Griffon project: http://griffon.codehaus.org/ While the Java/FX platform holds a lot of promise it's still early days yet. There is still a huge community behind Swing. Best of luck! Todd -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:32 AM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Posse] Swing book recommendations Hi I'm a fairly experienced Java developer but haven't done much with Swing beyond writing some simple tools for my own use. I'm looking for a Swing book that will show me best practice for setting up and implementing a medium to large scale Java desktop application. Any recommendations welcome. Cheers Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
