I used to work on netbeans to build Java applications but now: i am using eclipse.
I was was wondering if there a a free good plug-in to help me with swing windows.??
Jigloo - CloudGarden(free non-commercial)
Visual Editor Project
AND JForm (pay)
I'm assuming you want a GUI designer. The best plug-in for this is the excellent Swing Designer. Definitely worth a look.
Jigloo is free for non-commercial use. There are others on the UI category at Eclipse Plugin Central.
JForm designer is a good swing designer, but it is not free.
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I am looking for best swing editor rite now I was looking for eclipse plugin that is Swing Plugin. Are there any other plugins for designing Swing apps. that can be installed in Eclipse, and will also generate the code?
Not Eclipse, but quite powerful is the swing designer of Netbeans.
It generates the code you need, and has got a lot of features.
What plugin it is better to use for build swing interface using Eclipse?
Windows Builder Pro from Instantiations (now owned by Google)
Look at Swing GUI Designer
I'm creating a plugin project that will have a menu and toolbar item, that when clicked, will open a dialog for user interaction (input, searching, etc.). Should I create the dialog using SWT or Swing?
One advantage of doing it in Swing is that you don't have to supply any other libraries, because Swing is part of JRE. With SWT you have to do it and you have to have separate dlls for specific platforms.
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Since you mentioned that you have to create Eclipse plugin, I think you have a clear choice here - SWT. It is what Eclipse is based on.
SWT.
Debate over the merits of Swing and SWT is irrelevant. Your plug-in will integrate with a platform built on SWT. Using the same user-interface toolkit will simplify your development and testing, and produce better results.
There are cases where it's useful to use Swing within Eclipse, such as when you have an existing codebase that would be impractical to port. There is an SWT/AWT bridge; I have not used it.
Like #eugener, I prefer Swing to SWT, but both are rich, well-maintained frameworks that will serve the purpose. NetBeans and Eclipse are widely used exemplars. SWT binaries for popular platforms aren't too hard to integrate. The SWT FAQ may offer some perspective.
You'll need some other criteria to decide.
Since you're integrating Code Barrel into Eclipse, and SWT is part of the Eclipse project...
Actually, you should be looking at the Eclipse Plug-in Architecture and see how it works.
Our company needs to build web solution and we're somewhat short on time. We use Java and do not have a design yet.
We're looking for some tools/plugins for:
GUI-like web design (drag and drop components)
WYSIWYG
The tools must be **free*
We like GWT but any other UI framework is fine. Plugins for NetBeans or Eclipse would be great. Any ideas?
NetBeans has Visual Web JSF support. Fits all of your requirements.
If you use MyEclipse IDE it has a visual designer. It is not free, it is cheap and it has a 30 day trial.
I have just installed Eclipse 3.4 and found out that there is not a plugin to create Swing applications yet. I also have found that there is a Matisse implementation in MyEclipse IDE, but I'd like to now whether there is such a Matisse plugin for free.
Instatiations Swing Designer is the best in my opinion. We settled on it after trying may different Eclipse plugins.
there isnt one for free. myeclipse is the only way to run matisse inside eclipse.
Although this is not a true answer to your question, you may as well look at alternative solutions in terms of layout management: Matisse and GroupLayout are neither the only way, nor the best one, to define your GUI forms.
I would suggest you take a look at:
MigLayout (very powerful and quite
simple)
and DesignGridLayout (quite powerful
and very simple)
Both are open source and have a friendly license (not GPL).
A quick search on Google will give you the links immediately.
Disclaimer: I am one of DesignGridLayout both project owners, but I point you to it because I'm convinced it provides a better way to define Swing layouts.
I did a quick Google search and found that you could use Netbeans Matisse and Eclipse in parallel:
NetBeans Wiki: UsingNetbeansMatisseAndEclipseInParallel
It seems to basically involve building the Swing GUI in Netbeans and doing the other coding tasks from within Eclipse.