IDE for Swing [closed]

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, my best experience with Java SWING applications is with NetBeans. NetBeans has a WYSIWYG editor, and the code is automatically generated for you, which is then protected, however you can add custom code to add listeners and other events that the end user may be interested in using, such as buttons, text forms and areas, and other nice GUI tools.

Answer 2

I have a very good experience with NetBeans. It's so easy if you know every minor parts of these applications.

The most complicated part is using, for example, the layouts (if you can not handle complicated parts), but everything is almost plug & play.

And in addition, you can put JFrame into other frames without creating another frame class for this. I think that will be good.

Answer 3

NetBeans is the simplest to use (http://netbeans.org/). However, it does not allow you to edit (fine tune) the generated code.

JDeveloper (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/overview/index.html) is another solution and does allow you to edit the code... but I feel NetBeans is more intuitive.

Answer 4

As I'm using Eclipse, I use the Visual Editor plugin. It generates clean source code, with good patterns and easy to patch/modify/extend. Unfortunately, it is not very stable. But it's worth trying.

Answer 5

WindowBuilder Pro for Eclipse

• Free!
• It works with existing code and doesn't lock you in (as opposed to NetBeans)
• It works with MiGLayout
• It does have some conventions that your view classes have to follow, though.

Installing in Eclipse v4.2 (Juno):

1. Goto - menu Help → Install New Software...
2. Select - Work With: Juno - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno.
3. The WindowBuilder items are under "General Purpose Tools" (or use the filter).

Older versions and zips are available at http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder/download.php.

Answer 6

Use NetBeans, I have also successfully developed one application using NetBeans. It is realy awesome, it helps you while writing the code.
Since Swing generates some code on its own so it is really helpful to use Netbeans.
Go through it and you can always ask question and problems.
It will be good if you go for latest version release.