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    <p>I wonder if there are any suggestions for declarative GUI programming in Java. (I abhor visual-based GUI creator/editor software, but am getting a little tired of manually instantiating JPanels and Boxes and JLabels and JLists etc.)</p> <p>That's my overall question, but I have two specific questions for approaches I'm thinking of taking:</p> <ol> <li><p>JavaFX: is there an example somewhere of a realistic GUI display (e.g. not circles and rectangles, but listboxes and buttons and labels and the like) in JavaFX, which can interface with a Java sourcefile that accesses and updates various elements?</p></li> <li><p>Plain Old Swing with something to parse XUL-ish XML: has anyone invented a declarative syntax (like XUL) for XML for use with Java Swing? I suppose it wouldn't be hard to do, to create some code based on STaX which reads an XML file, instantiates a hierarchy of Swing elements, and makes the hierarchy accessible through some kind of object model. But I'd rather use something that's well-known and documented and tested than to try to invent such a thing myself.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/forms/" rel="noreferrer">JGoodies Forms</a> -- not exactly declarative, but kinda close &amp; I've had good luck with JGoodies Binding. But their syntax for Form Layout seems kinda cryptic.</p></li> </ol> <p><strong>edit:</strong> lots of great answers here! (&amp; I added #3 above) I'd be especially grateful for hearing any experiences any of you have had with using one of these frameworks for real-world applications.</p> <p>p.s. I did try a few google searches ("java gui declarative"), just didn't quite know what to look for.</p>
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    2. COyeah, I noticed. Doesn't exactly give me the warm-n-fuzzy feeling. Though I did try out some of their sample code and it was pretty neat.
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    3. COI did wonder about the lack of JavaFX comment myself. Anyway for all of the following and JavaFX (and dare we include the XAML, XUL and wxWidgets...) -- All these things need a facility like Ant that lets you extend the tooling in the (widget) class. Some meta-widget information and 'tool support'
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