Which one is better for creating a GUI using swings either Manual coding or IDE(NetBeans,eclipse)..? drag and dropping components

I am beginner in java application developing.... Which one is better for creating a GUI using swings either Manual coding or IDE(NetBeans,eclipse)..? drag and dropping components to frame v/s manually coding from scratch!!! I want frame with many components like label, textfield, buttons etc... When i click a button some group of components are to be loaded on frame and onclicking another button old components shud be replaced by new components...

January 27, 2014 at 1:35 PM

Hi,

I think NetBeans is the better IDE. But due to sake of simplicity and less resource requirement most of the developers are using the NetBeans IDE.

Thanks