I works if you don't try to emulate the native UIs certainly. I agree with that, but some projects have design requirements to use say, native style guidelines.

I works if you don't try to emulate the native UIs certainly. I agree with that, but some projects have design requirements to use say, native style guidelines. The point about Swing is that, it's good, so long as we're talking about custom LAF, not the Windows/Motif/OSX PLAF, which look/act sort of like the OS UX, but not quite.