nothing with spring but.... jtable like excel with jdbc

[pmularien]

On the project I was working on, commercial editors weren't an option, but JIDE looks great - thanks

[Jörg Heinicke]

AFAIK Netbeans' Matisse is supposed to do a very good job. JBuilder's GUI editor has always been crap since Borland dependencies were added even to the most simple Swing GUIs.

Joerg

[dr_pompeii]

hello guys

thanks for the replies

Karl

The nicest framework I came accross was JIDE, but you do have to pay for it. It was more than worth the cost however, as it saved me hours of coding and looked great!

if you can tell me your best option about tools for swing with your experience of course,
free and commercial options
i appreciate, same question for you friend pmularien

pmularien

I agree, I don't know why the Eclipse community hasn't caught up and done a GUI designer - my guess is that 90% of the Java community doesn't do enough Swing work to think it's worth the effort

perhaps eclipse hate swing and prefer its own way,
SWT world ,
really i dont know

Jörg

AFAIK Netbeans' Matisse is supposed to do a very good job. JBuilder's GUI editor has always been crap since Borland dependencies were added even to the most simple Swing GUIs.

if i dont bad remember JBuilder is not free, and according by experiences of my friends is a crap


Netbeans' Matisse is the default Swing GUI graphical editor that has by default netbeans right?

regards

[pmularien]

Netbeans' Matisse is the default Swing GUI graphical editor that has by default netbeans right?

regards

That's correct. Keep in mind that Netbeans 6 isn't out of beta yet, so it's still a bit unstable (although getting better).

[dr_pompeii]

Hello pmularien
thanks for the reply

That's correct. Keep in mind that Netbeans 6 isn't out of beta yet, so it's still a bit unstable (although getting better).

i remember years ago a book dedicated to netbeans, maybe in these days exists some for
Netbeans' Matisse dedicated?

regard

[karldmoore]

if you can tell me your best option about tools for swing with your experience of course, free and commercial options

Have you had a look at SpringRCP? There are lots of projects out there that might be useful. The best ones I found were commercial however.