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Title: Not his best work
Review: This book has good code samples and covers a lot of Swing. Unfortunately instead of really covering all the detail of a very complex framework, the book stops halfway both figuratively and literally. Of the 806 pages, only 356 are really any use. The last half of the book is composed of poorly presented synopses of the packages. These 450 pages (except for a workable index) are a waste and should have been used to convey the detail missing in the first half. They contain no navigational aids; instead class and interface descriptions appear seemingly randomly according to obscure (to me)organizational principles.The book also lacks a stylistic or pattern-based overview; instead we are left to infer these from the code samples.
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