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Review title: Fair, but rushed, effort
Product review: The author should be commended for penetrating the dense, and at times insufficient, Swing documentation to generate some useful examples. Even so, far too many important issues are glossed over and there are many, many typos. Overall, a very rushed job.The author is definately a hold over from the AWT coding days; his applications tend to subclass JFrame (a now unecessary habit) and he avoids all use of inner classes without any explanation of their pros or cons.The chapters build, in a rather unpredictable manner, towards the more complex examples, which mix JTree and JTable together.On the flip side, the book is very effective at uses screen grabs and illustrations to demonstrate ideas (a weakness in other books, notably Eckel's "Thinking in Java").In the final consideration, I seem to be liking this book less as I refer to it more and more. I'll choose my next book on JFC/Swing more carefully.
