I attended the Creating Professional Swing UIs Using NetBeans GUI Builder (Formerly Code-Named “Matisse”). I been meaning to get started with the NetBeans GUI Builder to become a more productive UI developer. An important point for me is that Matisse supports custom components. This is important for me because at my company we have developed a lot of custom components. The Matisse GUI Builder is a WYSIWYG visual builder with a drag and drop feel which can be used to design an UI as oppose to developing one. Of course UI builders are great to quickly prototype an application.<\/p>\n
The NetBeans UI Builder reminds me a of XCode’s Interface Builder. An IDE has context help, and UI Builder, like Interface Builder, have alignment help. With both these tools, UI design becomes an art rather than a science. At the end of the session one of the speakers simple summed up the session as, “Hand coding bad, Matisse good.”<\/p>\n
Here is a good design practice when using the NetBeans UI Builder: Design every container as resizable.<\/p>\n
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