Agile Project Management App

DesignGridLayout is a revolutionary and innovative Swing LayoutManager inspired by the use of canonical grids for user interface design. Its goal is to be useful for typical form-based designs. DesignGridLayout is an alternative to other grid-based layout managers (FormsLayout, GridLayout, GridBagLayout, HIGLayout, PnutsLayout, RiverLayout, SGLayout, TableLayout and MiGLayout). DesignGridLayout works with JDK 1.5 and later.

The idea of user interfaces based on canonical grids is described in the book Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano. Available online, Patrizia Nanni's thesis Human-Computer Interaction: Principles of Interface Design has a nice chapter called Module and Program: Grid-based Design, which also references Mullet and Sano's work.

One of the most useful things you can do when designing any presentation layer is to enforce Separated Presentation. Once you've done this, the next step is to think about how the presentation logic itself is going to be organized. For a simple window, a single class may well suffice. But more complex logic leads to a wider range of breakdowns.

Swing Explorer is a tool for Swing developers. It is intended for visual exploring of Swing-based application internals. It finds all windows in explored Swing application and displays their component hierarchies as a tree. Each component in the tree can

larity addresses the common pain points that make Java Swing applications difficult to create and maintain.

This includes GUI creation, threading, styling (think declarative CSS for Swing), and so forth.