Is JGoodies a good framework to use?

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KwintenP picture KwintenP · Oct 31, 2011 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I've been looking into JGoodies for the last two hours and i don't seem to find a lot of good documentation on the subject. Not even on the JGoodies website. So it made me wondering of JGoodies is a good framework to use to model your gui? Is there some good documentation on how to get started I haven't found yet?

Thanks in advance.

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AlenBer picture AlenBer · Oct 31, 2011

I'm just on a project that uses JGoodies for the UI and the only thing I can say is that it is very complicated and hard to use. I'm sure it's a powerful framework, but the documentation is not very well described and the framework complexity is just to hard to understand. I'm considering to switch to another framework...

It's just that it's not worth the pain, you wont get anything special from it, except headache..

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