Gregg Bolinger:
In fact, I don't know of any other FREE IDE's for building GUI's.
Actually, the codebase for Sun ONE Studio (ex-Forte4J) is NetBeans, and that is free. It has a facility for doing VB-like GUI form building.
However, I like it because:
a) it's free
b) it's great for J2EE/JSP/Servlet development, especially if you deploy to
Tomcat -- NetBeans 3.4 comes bundled with an internal Tomcat 4.0 server module.
c) it isn't hard to learn, and if you do need help, O'Reilly has a new NetBeans book hot off the press.
d) I can use the exact same IDE at home on my aging Slackware Linux machine as I use at work on my new Wintel workstation.
e) It has integration with CVS
f) It has an OpenSource Development community standing behind it.
IMHO, NetBeans is a great bargain! Nuf said.
PCS