Not sure you will find one such book. It takes a long time to be proficient with Swing and realizing patterns and practices around it's MVC architecture, L&F's, the dispatch thread as well as finding the components sorely missing from the standard widget library. There used to be a Swing Application Framework (JSR-296) which (along with JSR-295) attempted to make it easier to developer medium sized applications. However Sun devoted those resources to JavaFX so do not waste time on these - they are dead!
So if you really DO want to dive into medium to large scale applications with Swing, try building upon the NetBeans RCP - there's a decent book called "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform" although I fear it's now already somewhat dated. On Mar 4, 3:32 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm a fairly experienced Java developer but haven't done much with > Swing beyond wrting 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.
