A Java GUI Programmer's Primer

Author(s) : Fintan Culwin
Publication date : April 1998
ISBN : 0-13-908849-0
Pages : 322
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR

Book excerpts:

One of the most basic software engineering principles is to divide a specification into separate concerns and to implement each concern as an independent program module. For specifications which include a graphical user interface this would imply that the application and its interface should be developed independently. This design principle has the consequence of allowing the application modules to be reused with differing styles of user interface, or even used in embedded applications which do not have any direct interaction with a user.

A Java GUI Programmer's Primer contains an introduction to the systematic development of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) using the Java environment. It does not attempt to introduce the Java language and it is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with Object Oriented Development (OOD) and its practical expression in Java.

Note: in order to be able to explore the example programs on-line your browser must be capable of using Java 1.1.X. Even then the current state of developmment of Java 1.1.X browsers suggests that the results might not be quite as described in the text.

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