I’ve been using netbeans for java gui creations, are there any other better frameworks or ides out there for creating Java GUIs?
I’ve been using netbeans for java gui creations, are there any other better frameworks
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I’ve been using netbeans for java gui creations, are there any other better frameworks or ides out there for creating Java GUIs?
A GUI Framework is not an IDE and conversely!
NetBeans is an IDE, but also provided the NetBeans RCP framework (but you don’t need to use NetBeans IDE to use NetBeans RCP).
If you main problem is designing UI (panels, forms…) then you have two options:
you’ll need to use a LayoutManager
that has an easy API (good examples:
DesignGridLayout and MigLayout)
an IDE), I will never advise this
option because the generated code is
obscure and unmaintainable; also,
this enforces the same UI for all
developers in the team.
Now if you are looking for framework to build a UI application (not talking just about forms), then you have a few of them, but in most cases, they are either too “big” (eg, NetBeans RCP or Spring RCP), or provide only one part of the features required for a UI framework.
You may want to start with Swing Application Framework (or its offspring BSAF) although they both seem dead by now, they still can be used in a real-life application, if you’re not afraid to fix some bugs yourself (it’s not really difficult actually, because the codebase is quite small).