GUI forms editor

[Donald Carney]

Hey there,

Are there any GUI forms editors for Java?

In particular, I am looking for some forms editor that will allow a user

(non-technical) to modify a GUI without having to know what is going
on under the hood.

I know that there are some IDEs out there like Jbuilder and netBeans
that allow a user to easily create a GUI, but I think they are too
complex for a non-techie user. The idea is that a user should be able
to customize the GUI of an application without seeing the internals of
the application and also without messing up the normal execution of
the application.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Don

[Dan Puryear]

You use the GUI builder tools such as VisualCafe, JBuilder, etc to build a
"Wizard" mini-application that sets between the user and the real
application. This is normally done only for the very simple stuff like a
QueryByForm type of query otherwise the untechies get lost. The downer is
that You, the programmer, must anticipate everything that the user needs and
code it in the wizard.
-Dan