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I was most interested in the chapter on properties and firing events

when properties change. However, one of the code samples on page

71 includes an error that is not even addressed in the errata.

You cannot reference a 'this' object until the super object has been

created -- thus sayeth both Java 1.4.0 and Java 1.1. Furthermore, PropertyChangeSupport doesn't have a constructor signature that takes no

arguments. The point is that the code is structurally flawed and won't compile.

The size of the book has been bulked up with too much code. Rather than addressing the fundamentals, numerous incomplete and confusing snippets are thrown at the reader. Rather than have the example code broken out by .1 and .2, I'd rather see subdirectories that identify what the code is trying to exemplify along with a README somewhere in the zip file that says what each project is doing. It's bad enough that the code in the book won't compile -- don't make me permute source code to figure out what's going on.

Bottom line -- find another book. This one will just frustrate you.