Dmitry, that is the whole purpose of Swing layouts. HTML tables cannot compare with the functionality of layouts.
I also constantly find myself struggling with creating forms in swing that > are just used to represent parameters for command line programs, it's > always tricky for me to make everything aligned and resize nicely. Form > validation is yet another pain in the ass, especially when it comes to the > visual part of notifying the user what's wrong in which part of the form. > It would be so nice if all of this could just be rendered as a simple html > table with my choice of js validation framework and that I didn't have to > think about layouts etc too much. > >
