Let’s imagine situation where you’re making the layout for a webpage. In HTML you can put the stuff in divs and use CSS to set positioning, e.g. size, positioning, etc.
Let’s have another situatinon, but same requirements. You’re programing in Java Swing, and you also want to make layout with similar requirements, e.g. size, positioning, etc.
I haven’t found layout managers useful in this situation, because they make it one way, but never as you want it, e.g. one part will be next to another part, and it will have some size.
In short: I want the layout to handle positioning and setting sizes of GUI parts as happens with divs in HTML & CSS. I’m programing it in Java Swing.
I’ve tried swinghtmltemplate, but know about xito try to look through these projects, maybe you will find good solution for you. And yes, there is MiG layout