Greg Brannon wrote:Mr. Burke provided an excellent link for learning Swing, but I recommend you learn to code Swing "by hand" rather than using Netbeans' GUI Builder as suggested there. The GUI Builder generates code that is nearly impossible to read, modify, or maintain.!
I couldn't agree more. You definitely need to do Swing and AWT stuff by hand if you wanna learn it.
Alot of people on the forum prefer wring code with at text editor, which does work great. However, it wouldn't hurt to use an
IDE to help you with debugging. I like Eclipse which is open source & free.