Visual swing in Eclipse

Question

Is there any way I can use a visual editor to make swing applications in Eclipse? I'm using Ganymede.

Answer 1

There is an Eclipse plug-in for that: http://www.eclipse-plugins.info/eclipse/plugin_details.jsp?id=374

Answer 2

I use Jigloo a fair bit and it is quite good. Can generate GUIs for both Swing and SWT. Free for non-commercial use, and pretty affordable at $US85 per developer for commercial use. Works fine with 3.4 (Ganymede).

Answer 3

You may want to give a try at this free Swing visual editor for eclipse. I had not time to give it a run already but that's on my todo list (this editor looks interesting and it is open source).

Answer 4

You can use Visual Editor for Eclipse. It is pretty good for developing both Swing and SWT apps. It generates standard java code in the same file and you can hand edit it to fine tune. But it is pretty much dormant (dead?) - the last release was in 2006. (See is visual editor dead?)

You can also try Netbeans and its swing editor (what was it called?) but I found it not so intuitive. But the was things are going this might be the only free alternative left....

Answer 5

this is some thing better than VE have a look guys http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/visual-swing-designer-eclipse