The Java Tutorials' Weblog
Tuesday Jun 19, 2007
Layout Management and IDEs, continued...
First of all, I'd like to say a big thank you on behalf of the Java Tutorials team for the great response to the previous post, "Layout Management: Use an IDE or Code by Hand?". All your comments are of tremendous use to us, and help us enormously in improving and evolving the Tutorials. Launching this kind of public debate and finding out what you all think is precisely the reason why we set up the Java Tutorials Blog, and it is especially useful for potentially contentious subjects like this one. Rest assured that we do pay attention to your responses, and we will take them into account as we continue to update the Java Tutorials.In your responses to the previous post, a lot of you already mentioned which, if any, IDE / GUI builders you use. To help us continue to get to know our audience better, if you haven't already told us what IDE you do or do not use, and why, then we'd really like to know.
Finally, just to be be 100% clear, we'd like to assure you that we certainly are not making the Swing tutorial (or any other part of the Java Tutorials) entirely NetBeans-oriented, and we will of course continue to provide, show, and explain the code for all the different demos and lessons.
Thanks again for your interest in the Java Tutorials!
-- Stuart Clements
Posted at 10:04AM Jun 19, 2007 by The Java Tutorial Team | Comments[11]
Posted by Paul on June 19, 2007 at 05:48 PM PDT #
Posted by Daniel on June 21, 2007 at 02:03 PM PDT #
Posted by Klaus on June 25, 2007 at 01:25 AM PDT #
Posted by Riyaz Mohamed Ibrahim on June 25, 2007 at 09:53 PM PDT #
Posted by Paul (again) on June 25, 2007 at 11:23 PM PDT #
Posted by varan on June 26, 2007 at 02:33 PM PDT #
Posted by Stuart Clements on July 04, 2007 at 08:00 AM PDT #
If you are writing the NetBeans tutorial, by all means pimp it up.
If you are writing a layout tutorial, how dare you mention NetBeans? He he he. Just (kind of) kidding. You can link to your NetBeans tutorial, but you really shouldn't make ANY comments that require us to use it in the Layout (or any other) Tutorial. NONE AT ALL.
I work in a very restrictive environment, and I was lucky to get the tutorial downloaded. If I had to know how to use software I'm not allowed to use (NetBeans) in order to accomplish the layout task I'm researching, I'd be very put out.
For the record, I am required to use a Japanese Eclipse bundle called All-In-One, which contains the visual editor and some other nifty features. Eclipse is an excellent IDE, and does everything I need quickly and effectively.
I don't want you to write about Eclipse, either. Let the Eclipse tutorials tell me how to use it.
In closing, you really should promote your SpringLayout more. Put the SpringUtilities class in the JDK, even.
Posted by Naruki on July 05, 2007 at 07:05 PM PDT #
By the way, the IDE vs. hand-coding debate becomes superfluous and a lot of hot air if the underlying Layout Manager has an API which is easy to use and comes with a GUI interface for those who don't want to code.
Try Pagelayout and the acompanying GUI interface Gola.
Posted by varan on July 11, 2007 at 08:41 AM PDT #
and help us enormously in improving and evolving the Tutorials. Launching this kind of public debate and finding out what you all think is precisely
Posted by runescape money on November 10, 2007 at 04:50 PM PST #
i love java and honestly i use netbeans for designing my program because im having a hard time doing it by hand but im really interested to learn to code layout by hand but its really hard to understand please make it more easy or not very easy but not like layout managers right now
Posted by jayson on February 01, 2009 at 02:46 AM PST #