Further Reading

This week's topics are relatively new. They are not yet covered in many books. One notable exception is

The Java AWT Reference

by John Zukowski

• Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• ISBN: 1-56592-240-9
• Price: $39.95
• Pages: 1045
• Publication Date: April, 1997

The Java AWT Reference provides complete reference documentation on the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), a large collection of classes for building graphical user interfaces in Java. With AWT, you can create windows, draw, work with images, and use components like buttons, scrollbars, and pulldown menus. This book covers the classes that comprise the java.awt, java.awt.image, java.awt.datatransfer, and java.applet packages with occasional digressions into the sun.awt packages. This edition describes both Version 1.0.2 and Version 1.1 of the Java Developer's Kit and includes:

• Reference material on every AWT class
• Extended examples that demonstrate important AWT functionality
• A detailed explanation of Java's image processing mechanisms
• Coverage of every AWT component and container, showing how to use them in various combinations to create effective interfaces
• Descriptions of all the layout managers, including GridbagLayout
• Material on graphics primitives and rendering techniques