Re: [javaCompiler-users] NetBeans and JSwing Layout Support and JMF Support

[Marco T. <mt...@gm...>]

Hello Joe

Joe Osborne wrote:
> I am trying to compile a jar I created using Netbeans
> 5.5 and JDK 1.5.
> 
> It uses Swing components available in Netbeans. One of
> them is "org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout". I
> discovered that the compiler uses swingWT and may not
> have GroupLayout in it's library because I get a
> 'class file not found' error.

Read the FAQ, second question:
http://javacompiler.mtsystems.ch/frame_faq.html

And check the archives as well. There were some AWT/Swing disucssions. 
Basically, you could summarize it like this:
- swingWT is (at least in my opinion) useless out of the box. You've to 
work on it for your project. No one does, so there's no progress.
- GNU classpath AWT/Swing is probably much better, but doesn't work on 
windows

So, if it's a good GUI you wan't, go with SWT. It better protects the 
GUI thread and looks better (more native) than Swing and AWT anyway (in 
my opinion).


> I am also using Java Media Framework from Sun
> (JMF2.1.1e) to play sound. 

Then you've to compile that into the executable too...


> After I redesign my project with swingWT will I
> discover that javaCompiler will not compile my project
> because it doesn't support JMF? 

I don't know if JMF compiles. I never used JMF for real applications 
because its too unstable for me. Instead, I wrapped mplayer into my app ;-)

Create a little command line application that does some "hello world" 
JMF stuff and try to compile it. As I said, you've to compile JMF too 
because it's an external library...


> Can I use the Sun source for JMF to compile to
> overcome this?

If it's nothing more than some jars and native libs, shure.


> Also maybe I can get away with just replacing
> GroupLayout - will javaCompiler accept the other Swing
> layouts like GridBag, Grid, Border, Box etc? 

Some of them, yes. But don't expect too much from swingWT. The best 
thing - as I said -is to write your GUIs in SWT. Actually I'm thinking 
about removing swingWT from the next version.


> How can I find a list of Swing components that have
> been mapped to the SwingWT library?

Check resources/swingWT-0.87/swingwt-all.jar. Version 0.88 is out by 
now. But I didn't find better compatibility with it.


Marco