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Essential Swing libraries? JGoodies, JFreeChart [closed]

The wheel is invented over and over again - at least it seems so when looking at any average Swing GUI project.

In many areas there are one or two very well known libraries for things not directly addressed by the standard class library, e.g. hibernate for persistence.

But things seem a little less clear for GUI applications - what are the libraries you see as essential for almost any new GUI project?

I'd propose JGoodies as a start. And for anything involving displaying data graphically maybe JFreeChart. For more sophisticated components SwingX - I have never used it but I hear it often mentioned.

I know there are alternatives to Swing but lets stick with at least for this question.

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George Hawkins Avatar asked Jan 25 '11 21:01

George Hawkins


2 Answers

glazed lists for sorting and filtering lists and tables

xhtmlrenderer (flying saucer) for much better XHTML and CSS 2.1 support

swingx as you have mentioned, for the JXCollapsiblePane alone

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brian_d Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 06:09

brian_d


MigLayout is an awesome layout manager. I use it it on every project I start.

Jide Common layer has some nice free swing widgets.

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I82Much Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 06:09

I82Much