Friday, October 20, 2006

The 2006 JavaOne Conference Eight Ways to Be More Productive Developing Swing Applications

I was going through my JavaOne stuff from this year and came across this article with is well worth a few minutes for Swing programmers. I included the links here for quick reference.

The 2006 JavaOne Conference Eight Ways to Be More Productive Developing Swing Applications: "


Use a GUI Builder

Galbraith recommends the following IDEs:

* JForm Designer: http://www.jformdesigner.com
* NetBeans IDE: http://www.netbeans.org
* JetBrains' IntelliJIdea: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Avoid Swing's Default Layout Managers

* JGoodies FormLayout: http://www.jgoodies.com/products/
* GroupLayout: http://www.netbeans.org"