Need a good GUI platform

[janamarie]

I used to use NetBeans and it was recently revised/updated and now I hate the way it is laid out and is not user-friendly to me at all.

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a good (free) Java2 platform and where to find it...

Thanks,
Jana

 

[Diancecht]

You can find a nice one at

http://www.eclipse.org

Cheers.

Dian

 

[prosper]

I prefer JBuilder but eclipse is used by many companies and it is also the tools in WebSphere Application Developer

 

[jwenting]

JBuilder is top dog for GUI development, right after VI.
Personally I never liked Netbeans until the current 4.0 beta which looks nice but is sadly still too slow to be useful (having to sometimes wait a minute or more when scrolling a page of code is simply unacceptable).

 

[carpeliam]

Eclipse is the best free thing I've ever seen. Not only do you get a really good professional editor, but you can also get plug-ins for it which do almost anything. <p>Liam Morley<br><A HREF="mailto:"></A><br>&quot;light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>light the world, and bring depth to the silence.&quot;

 

[jstreich]

Bah, Emacs is god!!! Bow to RMS.... Oh, I mean...
I perfer Emacs, but what I've seen of Eclipse it's really nice... I have a copy of forte I used a few times, and I don't mind it all too much... But give me Emacs and plain text to make my gui's anyday.