java designer_Gui designer for java

Echoing what everyone else has said about Netbeans. It has been wonderful to me for wiring up forms, but after that hand coding has been the way I go thereafter. I typically structure my classes as follows:

public class MyPanel extends javax.swing.JPanel

{

public MyPanel(...)

{

initComponents();

build();

initListeners();

}

}

where initComponents() is the autogenerated layout from NetBeans. Then I add any additional components in my build() which I want to either hand code or set default params that I didn't want to do in the form designer, and then add my listeners in another hand coded method, initListeners(). That way even I'm not stuck in Netbeans, when I move away from it for further development (which I do in Eclipse). The downside is that I have two IDEs.