It's In The Bag

GridBag that is. So GridBagLayout is one of the most notorious of the layout managers in Java in fact for many developers it symbolizes the failure of the layout manager concept. That is the main reason why we never added it.


Last week I had a very interesting conversation with a very prominent Swing developer and he asked me whether we had gridbag support. I answered that we do not and repeated the regular "no one likes it" line, turns out he does like it and has a lot of Swing code that uses GridBag!

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