- ISBN13: 978-1-59059-325-7
- ISBN10: 1-59059-325-1
- 864 pp.
- Published Jun 2004
- Print Book Price: $49.99
- eBook Price: $34.99
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The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace
— Lasse Koskela, JavaRanch Bartender
Need to build stand-alone Java applications? The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace will help you build them from the ground up. The book first runs down the Java GUI toolkit history. Then the book explains why SWT is superior and provides extensive examples of building applications with SWT.
You'll come to understand the entire class hierarchy of SWT, and you'll learn to use all components in the toolkit with Java code. Furthermore, the book describes JFace, an additional abstraction layer built on SWT. Demonstrations of building JFace applications are also included and reinforced with thorough explanations and example code. These applications can be used as GUI plug-ins for Eclipse, and they're compatible with the new Eclipse 3.0 application development framework.
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Robert Harris
Robert Harris is a software engineer focused on distributed object computing. Since earning his master of science degree from the University of Florida, he has been designing and implementing flexible, resilient solutions in the telecommunications, transportation, and medical industries. His personal interests include speaking French with his 7-year-old daughter Mallory, catching bugs with his 6-year-old son Charlie, and infuriating his wife Alison (age withheld).
Rob Warner
Rob Warner graduated from Brigham Young University in December 1993 with a degree in English, and then immediately took a job in the technology industry. He has developed software in various languages for the transportation, banking, and medical industries during his career. Now president and CEO of Interspatial, Inc., he designs and develops Java-based solutions using both Eclipse and its derivative, WebSphere Studio Application Developer. He has used SWT and JFace on several projects, including an executive information system for a religious organization, a password-retrieval Eclipse plug-in, and various other applications and utilities. Rob lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife, Sherry, and their five children: Tyson, Jacob, Mallory, Camie, and Leila.