12.6 Sophisticated Layout Management
So far we’ve been using only the border layout, flow layout, and grid layout for the user interface of our sample applications. For more complex tasks, this is not going to be enough. In this section, we will discuss advanced layout management in detail.
Windows programmers may well wonder why Java makes so much fuss about layout managers. After all, in Windows, layout management is not a big deal; you just use a dialog editor to drag and drop your components onto the surface of a dialog, and then use editor tools to line up components, to space them equally, to center them, and so on. If you are working on a big project, you probably don’t have to worry about component layout at all—a skilled user interface ...
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