Which layout manager to use for a nested table layout

Question

I am looking for some guidance on how to achieve a certain Swing layout.

What I am looking to achieve is at the beginning have a layout with two rows. On a user command I would like the second row to split into several columns, and for each of these column cells to recursively split as above.

E.g. at the beginning:

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| Some stuff here   |
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|                   |
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Becomes:

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| Some stuff here   |
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|  stuff  | stuff   |
|---------|---------|
|         |         |
 -------------------

etc.

Answer 1

I would have said GridBagLayout, as it gives you exactly what you want without having to combine different layout managers within panels etc

Also refer to Java Visual Guide to LayoutManagers