What is the best book or piece of documentation on Java Swing?

Question

I am very likely to be starting a new project at work and will need to use the Java Swing library. I would like to get up to speed pretty quickly, preferably in the next two months. What do you consider to be the best documentation (either online or in book form) to help me get a solid grasp on the library?

Answer 1

Swing, Second Edition

I had the first edition of this book back in 2001, and it was great.

Answer 2

This is where I learned all I know about Swing. Straight from the horses mouth!

(The Java tutorials)

Answer 3

1. The Swing Tutorial
2. A beginner's Swing Tutorial
3. Swing Wiki
4. Java Swing by Robert Eckstein
5. Swing Labs

Answer 4

I learnt by pulling apart the good old SwingSet2.jar demo that comes with the JDK. It illustrates all the core features and tabs the code beside each demo.

Its in JDK/demo/jfc/SwingSet2. Or you can launch it from here.

Answer 5

Swing Hacks

Not sure how relevant it is today as I haven't used Swing in years but this book is awesome. Great format of code samples and explanation.

Answer 6

This really helped me to understand layout management.