Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace [Paperback]

Jackwind Li Guojie (Author)

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (Nov 8 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470094591
ISBN-13: 978-0470094594
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #500,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Professional Java Native Interfaces takes a solutions-based approach in showing how SWT/JFace works, discussing each common component, providing useful, practical ideas, tips and techniques to make the Java developers' work easier. The author provides relevant and timely examples, both stand-alone applications and smaller code snippets that readers can incorporate into their own code.

To provide a truly real-world quality, the author builds an email/ftp client sample application to show readers how to combine everything into a presentable Java native UI application.

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Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace

With millions of downloads, Eclipse's popularity as an open source universal tool platform continues to grow rapidly and the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is one of the most important common facilities the Eclipse framework provides. The pairing of SWT and JFace—which handles many common UI programming tasks—offers strong support of native features, a quick running time in terms of execution speed, and flexible programming models.

Covering the latest SWT/JFace version 3.0, this book begins with a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of the SWT/JFace framework. Then Jackwind Guojie introduces each widget, using Java source code to show you how to use the widget effectively. With the sample code provided, you'll be developing real-world applications quickly and easily.

Packed with tips, hints, tricks, and asides, this book is the ideal reference on SWT/JFace.

What you will learn from this book

How SWT/JFace compares with the features of other toolkits
SWT event handling, threading, and displays
How to use design basics, such as menus, toolbars, tables, and actions
Presentation of numerical values with scales, sliders, and progress bars
Important SWT components
The JFace wizard framework
Techniques for programming OLE and ActiveX controls in Windows
How to draw diagrams with Draw2D to create complex figures easily

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced Java user interface developers and programmers who want to combine various applications into one presentable Java native UI application.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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This chapter outlines the three main Java user interface (UI) toolkits: AWT, Swing, and JFace. Read the first page

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Amazon.com: 3.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Mistitled book, Nov 25 2008

By Robert Stevenson - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace (Paperback)

Unfortunately, the phrase "Java Native Interfaces" is in large letters and "with SWT/JFace" are in a much smaller font. It should have been the other way around because the complex subject of JNI is barely touched on here. I cannot comment on the SWT/JFace coverage because that was not my object, but if you are looking for a book that will tell you how to put C++ and Java code together, this one probably won't help.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Covers the basics, after that you're on your own, Jan 30 2010

By Glenn Holliday - Published on Amazon.com

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This review is from: Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace (Paperback)

Very little information is available about using JFace. This book, like many others, gives a good beginning, but does not go beyond the beginner tutorials available from IBM and other places. The big advantage of this book over learning from free tutorials on the Web is that a consistent explanation of all the basics of JFace are here in one place. By flipping back and forth, I constructed a better overview in my mind than I had from working individual tutorials.

This book is not enough by itself to get beyond a beginner level. None of the books I have found discuss how to use the event model when you have more than a few objects to juggle, or how to communicate data between the a GUI and the other parts of a large application. By reading this book and SWT/JFace in Action: GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0 (In Action series) side by side, I got a better picture of the JFace event model than from either book alone. I noticed that both books say something about the Model-View-Controller pattern, but do not fully explain how that differs from what is provided in JFace, SWT, and related Java frameworks. JFace contains many other aspects, such as its Help system, that this book does not cover. The pages in the index of my copy were misordered. I notice the publisher, Wrox, says this book is printed on demand.

In my opinion both this and SWT/JFace in Action: GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0 (In Action series) are superior to the third easy-to-find book on JFace, The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFACE.

7 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars New and Up to Date, Jan 28 2005

By John Matlock "Gunny" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace (Paperback)

One thing you gotta love about the Java crowd is their naming philosophy. Now there is SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit.

This book covers SWT as used in conjunction with Eclipse. It first compares SWT with other user interface packages, then it goes on to detail how to use the widgets to facilitate the writing of GUI's. It's a tutorial style book that completely covers Version 3.0 of SWT/JFace in a clear and informative manner.

This book is timely, clear and well written. It will quickly get the reader up to speed on these packages.

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