Visual Swing for Eclipse is a GUI designer tool, which consists of a set of Eclipse Plug-ins. It aims to provide a Swing designer for Eclipse for Java desktop developers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Eclipse

JFormDesigner is described as 'Innovative GUI designer for Java Swing user interfaces. Its outstanding support for JGoodies FormLayout, GroupLayout (Free Design), TableLayout and GridBagLayout makes it easy to create professional looking forms' and is an app. There are three alternatives to JFormDesigner for Mac, Windows, Linux and Eclipse. The best JFormDesigner alternative is Visual Swing for Eclipse, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JFormDesigner are Jigloo and GuiGenie.
Visual Swing for Eclipse is a GUI designer tool, which consists of a set of Eclipse Plug-ins. It aims to provide a Swing designer for Eclipse for Java desktop developers.

Jigloo creates and manages code for all the parts of Swing or SWT GUIs as well as code to handle events, and shows you the GUIs as they are being built. Jigloo parses java class files to construct the form that you use when designing your GUI (round-tripping), so it can work on...



GuiGenie is a new and free Gui Builder for Java (and written in Java). GuiGenie features an intuitive interface that allows you to quickly and easily build GUIs using the Java swing package.




Both provide frameworks for building UI's in Java.