Question

I am looking for a tool/framework to (automatically) generate a Swing user interface to perform CRUD operations on an underlying database.

I would also like to configure the database fields that should be exposed. Something like django (via modelforms) or ruby on rails features, but in a Java desktop environment.

Answer 1

NetBeans does seem like an obvious answer. These guys make a NetBeans plugin that does just that: http://www.morelisland.com/java_services/netbeans_tutorial/midbmetadata_se.htm

I’ve heard jgoodies does something similar: http://www.jgoodies.com/products/index.html

And more specifically their sub-project, Binding: https://binding.dev.java.net/

I know less about the SwingLabs databinding project, but it looks worth looking into: https://databinding.dev.java.net/