I am getting into daily arguments with a co-worker on the subject of layout managers. He's only worked with Java/Swing and looks down at absolute positioning/resource files. Right now we are ...

So, I'm a total newbie when it comes to Java, having to learn it on the fly here at my job.The short form of my problem is that I'm trying to force a JPanel using a FlowLayout to restrict its size ...

Window toolkits typically provide a layout mechanism that positions widgets in a container. For example, AWT and Swing have layout managers, and VisualWorks Smalltalk has wrappers. This article ...