I don't do a lot of GUI programming, but I always found the Swing layouting to be very frustrating and counterintuitive. As others have said, JavaFX is really

I don't do a lot of GUI programming, but I always found the Swing layouting to be very frustrating and counterintuitive. As others have said, JavaFX is really pretty good. People who use JavaFX generally seem to be satisfied, it's not often I see a substantive criticism of it, but unfortunately it seems to be widely regarded as too little too late and doesn't get given a chance. The Ada of the GUI toolkit world.