On the Web Site

The web site for this book, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/, offers some important materials you'll want to know about. All the examples in this book can be found there, as well as free utilities, PDFs of John Zukowski's Java AWT Reference (foundational for understanding Swing), and selected material from the first edition for those of you working with older SDKs.

The examples are available as a JAR file, a ZIP archive, and a compressed TAR archive. The files named swing were tested against J2SE SDK 1.4 for this edition. The files named swing-1e were tested against JDK 1.2 for the first edition of the book. The files named swing-old were written with the beta releases of Swing and use the com.java.swing hierarchies.

We also include a few free utilities on the site that you may want to check out:

macmetrics.jar

Lee Ann Rucker's MacMetrics theme. See Section 26.1 for details on this helpful tool that enables developers without access to Mac OS X to see how their applications' interfaces will look on that platform.

oraswing.jar

Our very own utilities bundle with documentation, including:

eel.jar

The Every Event Listener utility for debugging events from the various Swing and AWT components.

relativelayout.jar

A nifty XML-based layout manager.

mapper.jar

A quick helper for discovering the InputMap and ActionMap entries (both bound and unbound) for any given component. This is the utility we used to build Appendix B.

We may add other utilities as we receive feedback from readers, so be sure to check the README file on the site!

We owe a debt of gratitude to John Zukowski and O'Reilly & Associates, who have graciously allowed the classic Java AWT Reference to be placed online at our site. You can download PDFs of the entire book.

The web site also includes some expanded material that we couldn't shoehorn into this edition of the book. For those of you still working with JDK 1.2, we've included a PDF containing the "Keyboard Actions" section from Chapter 3 of the first edition the approach changed markedly with SDK 1.3. Regardless of your version of Java, if you're planning on extending the HTMLEditorKit, you should check out the expanded material online. We cover the basics of this editor kit in Chapter 23, but for those of you who want to dig in deep, you should download PDFs of the two chapters devoted to this topic..