Thanks Todd that the kind of thing I was looking for :-) On Mar 4, 3:29 pm, "Todd Costella" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
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