Intro; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction to Swing; What Is Swing?; The Simplest Swing Program; Components of a JFrame; Adding Components to a JFrame; Some Utility Classes; The Point Class; The Dimension Class; The Insets Class; The Rectangle Class; Layout Managers; FlowLayout; BorderLayout; CardLayout; BoxLayout; GridLayout; GridBagLayout; The gridx and gridy Constraints; Case #1; Case #2; Case #3; Case #4; Example #1; Example #2; The gridwidth and gridheight Constraints; The fill Constraint

The ipadx and ipady ConstraintsThe insets Constraint; The anchor Constraint; The weightx and weighty Constraints; SpringLayout; GroupLayout; The null Layout Manager; Creating a Reusable JFrame; Event Handling; Handling Mouse Events; Summary; Chapter 2: Swing Components; What Is a Swing Component?; JButton; JPanel; JLabel; Text Components; JTextComponent; JTextField; JPasswordField; JFormattedTextField; JTextArea; JEditorPane; JTextPane; Validating Text Input; Making Choices; JSpinner; JScrollBar; JScrollPane; JProgressBar; JSlider; JSeparator; Menus; JToolBar

JToolBar Meets the Action InterfaceJTable; JTree; JTabbedPane and JSplitPane; Custom Dialogs; Standard Dialogs; File and Color Choosers; JFileChooser; JColorChooser; JWindow; Working with Colors; Working with Borders; Working with Fonts; Validating Components; Painting Components and Drawing Shapes; Immediate Painting; Double Buffering; JFrame Revisited; Summary; Chapter 3: Advanced Swing; Using HTML in Swing Components; Threading Model in Swing; Pluggable Look and Feel; Drag and Drop; Multiple Document Interface Application; The Toolkit Class; Decorating Components Using JLayer

Translucent WindowsShaped Window; Summary; Chapter 4: Network Programming; What Is Network Programming?; Network Protocol Suite; IP Addressing Scheme; IPv4 Addressing Scheme; IPv6 Addressing Scheme; Special IP Addresses; Loopback IP Address; Unicast IP Address; Multicast IP Address; Anycast IP Address; Broadcast IP Address; Unspecified IP Address; Port Numbers; Socket API and Client-Server Paradigm; The Socket Primitive; The Bind Primitive; The Listen Primitive; The Accept Primitive; The Connect Primitive; The Send/Sendto Primitive; The Receive/ReceiveFrom Primitive; The Close Primitive

Representing a Machine AddressRepresenting a Socket Address; Creating a TCP Server Socket; Creating a TCP Client Socket; Putting a TCP Server and Clients Together; Working with UDP Sockets; Creating a UDP Echo Server; A Connected UDP Socket; UDP Multicast Sockets; URI, URL, and URN; URI and URL as Java Objects; Accessing the Contents of a URL; Non-Blocking Socket Programming; Socket Security Permissions; Asynchronous Socket Channels; Setting Up an Asynchronous Server Socket Channel; Setting Up an Asynchronous Client Socket Channel; Putting the Server and the Client Together