Java Swing Certified?

[pichula]

I'm a Java Certified programmer (310-035) and currently I'm working
with Swing GUI components in my job.

I would like to ask if anybody knows if there's any certification exam
for Swing-AWT. I know this topic was removed from the programmers exam,
but I think this is still included in another exam.

Are there any good book to recommend for Swing?

Thank you.
Pablo

 

[Patient X]

Are there any good book to recommend for Swing?

excellent: "Core Swing: Advanced Programming" by Kim Topley

 

[TechBookReport]

I'm a Java Certified programmer (310-035) and currently I'm working
with Swing GUI components in my job.

I would like to ask if anybody knows if there's any certification exam
for Swing-AWT. I know this topic was removed from the programmers exam,
but I think this is still included in another exam.

Are there any good book to recommend for Swing?

Thank you.
Pablo

If you already know Swing/AWT, then 'Swing Hacks' is definitely worth
checking out. Take a peek at the review here:
http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0185.html

 

[David Segall]

I'm a Java Certified programmer (310-035) and currently I'm working
with Swing GUI components in my job.

I would like to ask if anybody knows if there's any certification exam
for Swing-AWT. I know this topic was removed from the programmers exam,
but I think this is still included in another exam.

Are there any good book to recommend for Swing?

I like "Swing Second Edition"
<https://secure.manning.com/books/robinson2>. The first edition was
released as freeware but is no longer on Manning's web site. You can
still find it by Googling for swingdoc.zip so can see if it is
suitable. It is not the right book for Java GUI beginners but, since
you are already working in the area, it may be what you are looking
for.

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

I would like to ask if anybody knows if there's any certification exam
for Swing-AWT. I know this topic was removed from the programmers exam,
but I think this is still included in another exam.

AWT used to be part of Programmer, but apparently was dropped after I
took the exam

For Swing, perhaps the Developer exam has it. Check Sun's
certification web site.

 

[Roedy Green]

Are there any good book to recommend for Swing?

check out the set of books referrals at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swing.html

Follow the links to Amazon.com and read the customer reviews. You can
generally get a pretty good idea of the intended audience by who
complains and about what.

These sort of books are best selected in a bookstore. You scan them
reading selected bits. They should not sound like total Greek. If they
do, they will still sound like total Greek when you get them home. On
the other hand they should not sound "obvious" either.

You want something in the middle that will have some meat for you, but
not put you to sleep with difficulty.

Swing is not that complicated. There is just a lot of it. I would
look for a book with CODE EXAMPLES., and some sort of "gotchas" symbol
to point out the unexpected.

A book is useful for JTable and JTree, and writing your own LAF, but
most of the rest is so simple I would be surprised if you could not
easily teach yourself just by starting with the
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swing.html
entry, chasing links to each of the JComponents, reading my precis and
code example, then following the link to the Sun documentation for the
fine details, and a tutorial.

That is presuming you already understand AWT. If you don't understand
AWT, you might start with AWT or a beginner's book with lots of
pictures of what the results look like and sample code.

 

[Richard Wheeldon]

I'm a Java Certified programmer (310-035) and currently I'm working
with Swing GUI components in my job.

I would like to ask if anybody knows if there's any certification exam
for Swing-AWT.

No official Sun one, but there are others.

http://brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/testcenter/taketest.xml?testId=26

Richard