Question

I want to arrange components as shown in image. I can do this by using gridbaglayout but I want to do this using borderlayout. I tried it but could not achieve what I wanted. so please guide me here.
The black rectangles here are components like JPanel, Button etc.

Answer 1

If you want to do it only with BorderLayout, you need to use 2 BorderLayout. If you cannot use 2 layouts, then you are stuck with GridBagLayout.
This is a demonstration of what I am telling:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class Test {

    protected void initUI() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("test");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
        JPanel panel2 = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
        panel2.add(new JButton("NORTH"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
        panel2.add(new JButton("CENTER"));
        panel.add(panel2);
        panel.add(new JButton("SOUTH"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        panel.add(new JButton("EAST"), BorderLayout.EAST);
        frame.add(panel);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                new Test().initUI();
            }
        });
    }
}