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Which is the best IDE for building complex swing GUI..We need to sort it out and boil down to using one for our project...
 
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IS money an issue?
Personally I prefere a TextEditor.
But as far as IDE's go, the new JAVA ONE (Formally Forte) is pretty nice for building GUI's. In fact, I don't know of any other FREE IDE's for building GUI's.
 
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Hi Greg..
money is not an issue.....you have any info regd visual cafe/jbuilder/jdeveloper ..i mean how good they are when it comes to building GUI's
 
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I don't have very much experience with either but have use both JBuilder and the new Sun One and it seems like Sun One is a lot easier to start using and just as powerful as JBuilder.
You can download both for free (for personal use only of course) so you should try them out and see what you think.
If I remember correctly JBuilder will do some weird thing when you install it, I think that it will install Java SDK 1.3 and if you have 1.4 you will have to explicitly have to set your path if you want to use it. Its kind of a hassle. It seems like Sun One is a little more "Java friendly" than JBuilder.
 
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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.
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If you are thinking about Sun ONE (formerly Forte) you may want to look at NetBeans (www.netbeans.org)... it is the open source project that is the base code for Forte and it is free. In my opinion it is also more feature-rich. It does have a very good GUI builder, though as a personal recomendation, I would say that it is better to learn swing and code it by hand.
I have been using NetBeans for about two years and have found nothing that beats it. I was forced to use JBuilder for about six months and found it pittiful by comparison... and very over-priced.
Hope this helps
 
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