The best tool for build swing UI visually [closed]

Question

What is the best and powerful tool for building swing interface? What tool do you use for swing? Why?

Answer 1

NetBeans Matisse (comes bundled with NetBeans) is good and powerful.

This eclipse plugin seems fresh as well, but I haven't tried it.

Answer 2

Eclipse is my IDE of choice. You can download Eclipse Visual Editor Project(VEP) from here. take a look at this tutorial.

The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a vendor-neutral, open development platform supplying frameworks for creating GUI builders, and exemplary, extensible tool implementations for Swing/JFC and SWT/RCP.

if you want some compression between Eclipse's VEP and NetBeans' Matisse, take a look at this and this.

Answer 3

Netbeans comes with a nice GUI builder, look here: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/nb_guibuilder/

Answer 4

Netbeans is the best tool till date!