Group Layout

Tomas Pavek has a two-part blog discussion about GroupLayout, the new layout manager designed for Netbeans 5.0. I'm using both Netbeans 5 and GroupLayout to do the GUI for a new project, so the timing is perfect.

I was going to write a longer entry about Netbeans 5 and GroupLayout, but Tomas went into greater depth than I would have, so take a look at what he said. Matisse, the GUI builder in Netbeans 5, is a huge improvement over previous revisions; I'd dare to say an improvement over all the other Java UI builders I've used.