I never knew there were layouts in the JLS
sorry I meant The Java™ Tutorials.
thank you for package Cay Horstmann's GBC class. Do you mean to say that If I use NetBeans I don't have to worry about layouts while designing the interface of my desktop application ? because I'm going to use NetBeans for desktop applications so I'll not code it by hand, it will take much time to complete my projects. Actually why I'm learning layouts is, I'd developed a desktop application on a laptop and after finishing that application copied the project and ran same project on other laptop which had small screen and had low resolution( I think 1200 X 800 ) compared to previous laptop so the 1/4 of application interface was hiding, couldn't see completely & properly, perhaps that was because I didn't set layouts properly.