JFC Swing Tutorial, The: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, Second Edition

JFC Swing Tutorial, The: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, Second Edition

The JFC Swing Tutorial is back, fully revised and updated to include the latest revisions to the JFC Swing API and the Java(TM) 2 platform. In this book, authors and Java experts Kathy Walrath, Mary Campione, Alison Huml, and Sharon Zakhour—working closely with the Sun Microsystems Swing team—explore the ins and outs of creating GUIs with Swing components.This task-oriented, example-driven tutorial allows you to create user interfaces that work without change on multiple platforms, appearing and performing as well as or better than native interfaces. Leveraging the full power of the latest edition of the Java 2 platform, the authors bring the art of GUI creation to life with content new to this edition. This includes an easy-to-use tabbed reference section, new introductory chapters, and coverage of newer features such as JSpinner, JFormattedTextField, JProgressBar, mouse wheel support, the rearchitected focus subsystem, and improved support for drag and drop.Coverage includes: -Introductory material for developers getting started with Swing, including sections on basic components such as text fields, labels, and buttons, as well as on using images -The latest advice from the Swing team about thread safety -Advanced Swing material, including changing key bindings, manipulating the focus, using data models, and adding painting code that uses the powerful Java 2D(TM) API -How-to discussions on using individual components and containers, including advanced components such as tables, trees, and text editors -Over 150 complete, working code examplesFor the novice or experienced Java developer looking to create robust, powerful, and visually stunning GUIs, The JFC Swing Tutorial, Second Edition, is an indispensable tutorial and reference.

JBuilder 8.0 JFC and SWING Programming

JBuilder 8.0 JFC and SWING Programming

Borland’s JBuilder has simplified the process of creating professional applications in Java. The latest version of Java, Java 2, offers access to the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and Swing classes, which together make it possible to create platform-independent graphical interfaces within Java programs. JBuilder® 8.0 JFC and Swing Programming introduces the various JFC and Swing components used for handling events, facilitating user interaction, and arranging components on a container, and demonstrates these topics with a variety of examples. The book also covers adding menus, toolbars, and dialogs to applications and handling threads in Swing. Each chapter contains review questions to ensure essential concepts have been mastered.Understand how the JFC and Swing classes expand on the Abstract Windowing Toolkit.Discover how to alter your application’s look and feel with the layout managers.Find out how the Graphics class allows you to perform a variety of graphics renderings.Learn how to create database applications and applets with JFC and JBuilder.Explore the functionality of the Java 2D API, which provides for enhanced two-dimensional graphics, text, and imaging capabilities.The companion files can be downloaded from w w w .w o r d w a r e . c o m /files/jbuilder.

Core Swing: Advanced Programming

Core Swing: Advanced Programming


Written as a supplement to the author's Core Java Foundation Classes, Kim Topley's Core Swing: Advanced Programming delves deeply into several important Java topics. Every experienced Java programmer will find very useful techniques for working with Swing controls and other high-level UI features.

The book zeroes in on two aspects of Swing interfaces. First, there are over 500 pages on optimizing your usage of a variety of Swing text controls. The author provides solutions to mimicking native-style operating system support for data validation, numeric input, and special processing with user input. There's also excellent coverage on the extensive support in Swing for loading and displaying HTML. Sections on extending the Swing table control will let you change how table data is displayed and edited (with coverage of custom renderers and cell editors).

In addition, this book explores features in Swing that allow you to carry out advanced user interface operations, such as drag-and-drop functionality and undo support. Throughout this text, the author uses short code excerpts that solve problems and showcase brilliant Swing implementations. By concentrating on strategies and solutions, and not just the Swing APIs, the author shows you not only how to solve particular problems but also the underlying Swing design philosophy, so you can take this library even further in your own programs.

If anything, this text proves once and for all that Swing is ready to take on native operating systems like Windows with its support for advanced user features. This book delivers some really valuable and impossible-to-find information for any experienced Java programmer who needs to do more with Swing. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Extending Swing text controls, text wrapping and scrolling, manipulating text documents, input validation, text attributes, highlighters and carets, custom views, Swing HTML support classes, viewing HTML, editor kits, cascading style sheets and Swing, bi-directional text for international applications, advanced table features in Swing, custom table renderers, table editing and cell editors, drag-and-drop support in Swing, drag sources and drop targets, using tree controls for file information, undo support in Swing.

Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies, Vol. 2 (2nd Edition) (Core Series)

Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies, Vol. 2 (2nd Edition) (Core Series)

Java EE is the technology of choice for e-commerce applications, interactive Web sites, and Web-enabled services. Servlet and JSP technology provides the link between Web clients and server-side applications on this platform. Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Volume 2: Advanced Technologies, Second Edition, is the definitive guide to the advanced features and capabilities provided by servlets and JSP.

Volume 2 presents advanced capabilities like custom tag libraries, filters, declarative security, JSTL, and Struts. Like the first volume, it teaches state-of-the-art techniques and best practices illustrated with complete, working, fully documented programs.

Volume 2 explains in detail the advanced tools and techniques needed to build robust, enterprise-class applications. You'll learn how to control application behavior through the web.xml deployment descriptor file, how to enhance application security through both declarative and programmatic methods, and how to use servlet and JSP filters to encapsulate common behavior. You'll also learn how to control major application lifecycle events, best practices for using JSTL, and how to build custom tag libraries. Volume 2 concludes with an in-depth introduction to the Jakarta Struts framework.

Complete source code for all examples is available free for unrestricted use at www.volume2.coreservlets.com. For information on Java training from Marty Hall, go to courses.coreservlets.com.

Volume 1 presents comprehensive coverage of the servlets and JSP specifications, including HTTP headers, cookies, session tracking, JSP scripting elements, file inclusion, the MVC architecture, and the JSP expression language. It also covers HTML forms, JDBC, and best practices for design and implementation.

Core Servlets and Java Server Pages

Core Servlets and Java Server Pages

In the Java universe, the interface layer of the ubiquitous model-view-controller (MVC) software design paradigm is handled by either servlets of JavaServer Pages (JSP). The second edition of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, like its predecessor, documents these handy technologies fully and practically. Far more than a straight API reference, this book presents examples--complete with code and a listing or screen shot showing results--wherever possible. It's a fantastic strategy for communicating to programmers what they need to do in order to achieve the effects and behaviors they desire. What's new in the second edition? Lots, in terms of its eponymous software development environments: The book covers servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0. The examples are more refined, too, and more attention is paid to supporting technologies like Web and database servers.
The didactic approach of authors Marty Hall and Larry Brown is recipe-like. They typically begin with a statement of a problem to be solved, then discuss relevant aspects of the servlet or JSP API. A series of code listings follows, and screen shots showing results bring up the rear. The net effect is that it's easy to spot relevant sections in the table of contents, it's clear how implementation works (thanks to the extensive listings) and there's no doubt about what the results are supposed to be. More elaborate examples show how servlets and JSP work in shopping cart, auction, and other applications. This is a significant and worthwhile update to an important Java book

Core JSP

Core JSP

* The experienced developer's guide to JavaServer Pages development!
* Database access, XML support, JavaBean integration, and much more
* Architecting JSP applications for maximum performance and maintainability
* Includes several complete sample JSP applications such as an authentication framework, an email tag library, and a Database-to-XML/XSL conversion tool Sun's JavaServer Pages technology gives developers a powerful cross-platform solution for dynamic Web application development without the drawbacks of previous approaches. In Core JSP, two leading enterprise developers show experienced developers exactly how to make the most of JSP technology—for database integration, XML applications, session tracking, and many other purposes. From coding fundamentals to effective JSP program design, you'll find it here—along with real-world sample code for HTML calendars, JNDI applications, LDAP-based authentication JavaBeansTM, database search forms, and more! * Make the most of scriptlets, expressions, declarations, actions and directives
* Get under the hood with Sun's JSP engine: multithreading, persistence, implicit objects, and more
* Understand JSP requests and responses—in depth
* Track sessions and data: hidden frames and form fields, cookies, URL rewriting, and the HttpSession API
* Integrate databases: JDBCTM, SQL, metadata, connection pooling, and more
* Creating custom JSP actions (custom tags)
* Optimize the performance of your JSP pages Every Core Series book:
* DEMONSTRATES how to write commercial quality code
* FEATURES dozens of nontrivial programs and examples—no toy code!
* FOCUSES on the features and functions most important to real developers
* PROVIDES objective, unbiased coverage of cutting-edge technologies—no hype! Core JSP delivers:
* Practical insights for transforming dynamic web pages into full-fledged web applications
* Hands-on coverage of integrating JSP and XML
* Expert JavaBean Action techniques for integrating JavaBean business logic with JSP presentation logic
* Extensive code examples—including several complete sample applications

Core JavaServer Faces

Core JavaServer Faces

JavaServer Faces promises to bring rapid user-interface development to server-side Java. It allows developers to painlessly write server-side applications without worrying about the complexities of dealing with browsers and Web servers. It also automates low-level, boring details like control flow and moving code between web forms and business logic.

JavaServer Faces was designed to support drag and drop development of server-side applications, but you can also think of it as a conceptual layer on top of servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Experienced JSP developers will find that JavaServer Faces provides much of the plumbing that they currently have to implement by hand. If you already use a server-side framework such as Struts, you will find that JavaServers Faces uses a similar architecture, but is more flexible and extensible. JavaServer Faces also comes with server-side components and an event model, which are fundamentally similar to the same concepts in Swing.

JavaServer Faces is quickly becoming the standard Web-application framework. Core JavaServer Faces is the one book you need to master this powerful and time-saving technology.

Without assuming knowledge of JSP and servlets, Core JavaServer Faces:

- shows how to build more robust applications and avoid tedious handcoding
- answers questions most developers don't even know to ask
- demonstrates how to use JSF with Tiles to build consistent user interfaces automatically
- provides hints, tips, and explicit "how-to" information that allows you to quickly become more productive
- explains how to integrate JSF with databases, use directory services, wireless apps, and Web services
- teaches best practices and good habits like using style sheets and message bundles
- covers all of the JSF tags and how to create new tag libraries