This Chapter
-	Chapter 5: Swing Updates
-	Better Windows Look and Feel
-	Better GTK Look and Feel
-	Improvement to Drag and Drop
-	True Double Buffering
-	JTable Sorting
-	JTable Filtering
-	Swing Worker
-	Text Component Printing
-	New Methods in the JTabPane Component
-	Summary

Table of Contents
-	Introduction
-	Chapter 1: Core Libraries
-	Chapter 2: Dynamic Compilation
-	Chapter 3: Scripting
-	Chapter 4: Networking
-	Chapter 5: Swing Updates
-	Chapter 6: Abstract Window Toolkit
-	Chapter 7: Internationalization
-	Chapter 8: Java Database Connectivity 4.0
-	Chapter 9: XML Digital Signature API
-	Chapter 10: Streaming API for XML
-	Chapter 11: Java Architecture for XML Binding
-	Chapter 12: Web Services
-	Chapter 13: JavaBeans Activation Framework
-	Chapter 14: User-Defined MXBeans
-	Chapter 15: Concurrency Updates
-	Appendix A: Enums
-	Appendix B: Generics
-	Appendix C: Annotations

 

Chapter 5

Swing Updates

Java 6 comes with a number of new features and improvements in Swing, from new Windows and GTK look and feels to better support for drag and drop to JTable sorting and filtering. This chapter explains these changes in detail and provides examples.

 

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