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Swing is the most powerful way to increase the GUI in Java applications.

It includes many new controls, a larger number of pannels and containers, the ability to create moveable boxes of icons, viewports... and many new other features !

What should be said is that this book is NOT for Java beginners !!! There are too many deep aspects of Java that must be known before to read this book...

In general, I had a lot of pleasure to read this book, I learned a lot of stuff and will surely apply this knowledge as soon as possible...