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NetBeans 5.0 is Out With a Very Good GUI Builder
NetBeans 5.0 is out.
What excited me is the new Matisse GUI Builder that "makes it easier to layout professional looking windows and dialog boxes".
Be sure to check out the demo.
I also tried the new GUI builder myself. I have been very impressed. It's a lot better than JBuilder's. I am not sure how it stacks up against Eclipse as I didn't find any good GUI builder for Eclipse like one year ago.
I used to use Netbeans 4 to develop GUI prototypes because it had the best GUI builder to let me lay out things with different layout managers. But it still required a lot of tweaking (mainly on GridBagLayout) in order to get resizing to behave correctly. Netbeans 5 has made it so easy to get the right resizing behaviors. Thumbs up!
