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You do realise you can use several layouts simultaneously? You can have for example, a top panel, a middle panel and a bottom panel, which sounds like border layout. You can put grid layout on one panel and box on the other two. Just an example.
You should find more details as you go through that tutorial. Remember: in grid layout you usually get all the components the same size.
They should be listed
here, at least the more commonly‑used ones are. Flow layout is no good, and nobody can understand Spring layout.