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Jari:

Aside from the obvious "go to the javasoft site and search", the only
absolute must-read item I have is The Java FAQ at www.afu.com. 
Updated regularly and it is the standard against which posts in the
regular comp.lang groups are measured (i.e., you stand a chance of
getting flamed if you ask a question that's already handled in the
FAQ).

Now, I'm a little biased, but I feel that if you want to play on the
bleeding edge you don't get to be "lazy" and must do some basic
research.  I also think you should share your findings, though.  I
know too many developers who hoard knowlege.  No point in that, IMO
<g>.

-Rich

Jari Nurminen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been following this newsgroup for a while and I have realised that
> there's a lots
> of postings (including a couple ones from me) about repainting windows or
> applets.
> 
> The reasons for these problems have varied from swing bugs to programmer
> errors due to the lack of Java knowledge. The latter is quite common
> because programmers tend to be too busy (= lazy ;-) to read manuals, good
> books about the topic might be hard to find, good books might be too
> expensive and it's even harder to find good documents on the web.
> 
> Now, I'd like to raise some discussion about the following:
> -Does anyone know good FAQ's/links/books/articles/newsgroups about the
> swing-behaviour (and GUI-behaviour in Java in general)?
> -Tips/links/books/etc. when you should repaint(), validate() etc. methods,
> maybe a brief introduction to the swing event model would be nice
> -What you can do and what you can't with the GUI?(MDI-windows? ,creating
> modal-dialogs from a non-graphical class (needs a parent frame)? Applets
> which create a frame and run in it?) = what you should never try and what
> you should always do.
> -Everything else you think is related to this.
> 
> All comments are welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
>                 Jari

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Rich Wilkman
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Borland JBuilder Team

If you see something that looks like an opinion up there,
it's mine and mine alone.

Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will
be ignored.  If I have time, I'll respond, but you  have
a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups
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