Comments on: java GUI builder VE Matisse, Jigloo

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:19:00 +0000

My GUI-Builder of choice is Matisse within NetBeans. As an eclipse-lover it is the only cause for me to install NetBeans.
I tried VE, but it could catch up with my changes very soon, so After the basic GUI design I simply copy the code to eclipse and do everything else manually.

By: Ahmad H. Abu Qauod

Ahmad H. Abu Qauod — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:55:00 +0000

Hi Ali,
I think you are right, there is no perfect free GUI builder for Java.
I tried before so many GUI Builders, but I don’t find a perfect one. So, I decide to build my own one. And I did; I have built a GUI Builder for Java and use it to build my applications, it is not completed but it do 90% of the Job, and then generate the code for you to complete the remaining 10% manually.

I think its better than use others GUI Builders.

The following Link guide you to a website that write about my GUI Builder.

http://www.alkendisite.com/jim.html

By: Sébastien

Sébastien — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:57:00 +0000

I think that matisse is a really great GUI builder, once you master it (which shouldn’t take too long, you can really design nice gui’s in no time.
The huge drawback to it is that if you mess manually with the code, it’s really easy to break the form

There is also a matisse version for eclipse but again it is not free (it’s shipped with myeclipse enterprise ga).

By: Solo

Solo — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0000

Well, I entirely agree with Hassan, Matisse in my perception is a different intelligence which actually try to think what you are thinking but hardly gets what you really want.

By: حسن عمر المرهون

حسن عمر المرهون — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:07:00 +0000

Really good post Ali,

Don't remember me about Matisse...

Yes that right there is no free good GUI Builder (for Java), In my point of view I prefer Null Layout (after using Matisse in NetBeans6.0 M9 beta), I hope that NetBeans6.0 release will solve Matisse problems.

Hassan Al-Marhoon