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Chris Adamson, ONJava Editor I usually fade about 300 pages into the thousand- page desk- crackers, but some topics need the space. Java Swing is one such example. For my first three or four years of desktop Java development, I frequently dove into this book when the javadocs were dead-ends and I said, "OK, what's the conceptual basis that ties all this together?" Try figuring out table column models or undo/redo without a guide like this...no, don't, it's too hard. Read more »