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Can anybody recommend GUI builder for JAVA ?

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
I need advice on what GUI builder Iis best inorder to generate JAVA source code for an eclipse project I am working on ?
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GUI builder? You mean Beans?

Jsut code the GUI! It's not that hard and the code blaot with anythingthat auto gens would be a nightmare.
 
Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
I think Netbeans includes a GUI builder. I'm sure Eclipse has a plug in for that, too.
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I am used to programming in VB.net and when I tried creating a form in NetBeans I just found it awful, is it just me or GUI builders in JAVA makes things more difficult rather than making things easy ?
 
I have never encountered a java gui builder that doesnt create code that looks like someone crapped in your code. so I strongly reccomend building it yourself, which results in far cleaner code. only for extreme RAD (you need a gui in less than one hour) I would reccomend gui building tools.
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
I think Netbeans includes a GUI builder. I'm sure Eclipse has a plug in for that, too.
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I am used to programming in VB.net and when I tried creating a form in NetBeans I just found it awful, is it just me or GUI builders in JAVA makes things more difficult rather than making things easy ?
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Netbeans was the first GUI Builder for Java I had used; in college they made us do it all by hand (it's really not all that bad, honestly). But Netbeans made the process so damn quick for me. I haven't used VB in many years, but maybe what you're having the most trouble with is the Java layout scheme - BorderLayout, GridLayout, SpringLayout, etc. It might not be a very instinctive way to approach Java GUI design from other backgrounds. The Java tutorial on Layout managers might help. To be honest, when using Netbeans I selected their AbsoluteLayout and locked the window size.
 
Originally posted by: boran
I have never encountered a java gui builder that doesnt create code that looks like someone crapped in your code. so I strongly reccomend building it yourself, which results in far cleaner code. only for extreme RAD (you need a gui in less than one hour) I would reccomend gui building tools.
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i agree.. the code generated by a gui builder lacks structure.. instead it just meshes everything together in one method or another.
that doesn't mean that i don't love em tho.. i still use them, but only for the shell.. generating a non-simple layout or adding event handlers is more of a pain in a builder than it is to code.
I am used to programming in VB.net and when I tried creating a form in NetBeans I just found it awful, is it just me or GUI builders in JAVA makes things more difficult rather than making things easy ?
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you're not going to get that same ease with java.. vb was designed to allow people with little programming experience to create applications that interact with dlls.

here're some free ones..
eclipse ve.. requires eclipse, and it's kinda slow to load.
jigloo.. requires eclipse. free for non-commercial use only.
oracle jdeveloper.. it's an ide of it's own. free for non-commercial use only.
 
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