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"Bradford C. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Well Bobo, you took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to
> comment on the somewhat nasty response by Paul, but you summed up my
> thoughts very well.
Sorry if the comments sounded nasty.  I'd say they were direct to the
point.  I won't go over the same issues.  My points stand.

> ... Bob very nicely summed up my
> feelings about the lack of helpful F1 help.

See my comments in a response to Bob about the "Doc" tab.  JavaDocs
is the way Java is documented.  It may be different from the way 
it's done in Delphi.  You may have to get to the JavaDocs for classes
by doing something other than pressing F1, but you can get there, and
for my money, you can't beat the drill-down feature of "Browse symbol
at cursor."


> ... Too bad there appears to be a paucity of JBuilder specific 
> books out there. ...

This issue has been battled back and forth in previous threads.  Essentially,
the on-line docs on the JBuilder IDE should be all you need on that subject.
Using the IDE is quite different from using libraries.  When it comes
to using those libraries which the JBuilder team has written, notably
the DataExpress components, the on-line documentation is quite good and 
sufficient.  In addition, the OnlineStore demo is rich with things to
learn 
by example.  My observation has been that not enough folks bother to
explore 
these examples.

> I'm leaning toward the Java in a Nutshell, as it seems to provide both a
> Java intro, and a nice, helpful reference.

My copy is dog-earred.  Some books on Swing would be helpful too
if you are going to be doing lots of UI/Java application kinds
of programming.  Keith Topley has written two in-depth books
on Swing.


Paul Furbacher (TeamB)

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