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Netbeans recently dropped support for Swing based Java Desktop Applications from version 7.1 onwards. Till that point I had always imagined that creation of Java Application User Interfaces would be cross platform. I thought that a Swing UI created in Netbeans designer could be easily understood and edited in Eclipse but apparently now I realize that it is not the case.

Is there a way to make the Java Application User Interface by not depending on IDE-specific Java UI designers? That is a form of UI description, can be XML or something that can be edited on the different IDEs that people would like to use.

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That post starts..

I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing Application Framework-based applications, ..

OK. You can stop reading there, sounds like JSR 296 which has been dying for years. Pure Swing apps. should be fine.

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