The Best way to layout label-textfields coupls

Hello all,
I've been developing a window for a data-entry program... and I've to layout 10 couples of label-textfield this way:
Name: ____________
Surname: ____________
Address: _________________
ZIP: ____and so on.
I'm quite new in Swing programming (always developed JSP/Servlet) so I'm trying to understand the best way to do this thing.
I tried using the method suggested by Sun Swing tutorial, that is to put all labels in a GridLayout and all textfields in another GridLayout.
Then add the 2 GridLayedout Panels in a BorderLayout (with fields in Center and labels in WEST).
This method has the advantage that all labels are aligned with the right textfield and all textfields stats the same position, but all textfield have the same width and have a very big height (much more than the preferred size) and textareas are the same height as textfields, even if I requested them to be 3 lines.
Then I tried filling a GridLayout with lines each made up by a BoxLayout with label and textarea: now, since the labels are each of a different size, the textfields are no more aligned, but the result is as ugly as before.
Then I tried the same thing as before, but putting all BoxLayout in a vertical boxlayout: now the height are ok, but the width and the alignment still sucks.
Again I tried putting inside the BoxLayout many rows layed out with border layout, with labels at WEST and field at CENTER, but the result is the same as before.
So I'm asking you all gurus of Swing an help.
Thank you
Simone

I think the only J2SE-standard-layout to design forms like yours is in fact GridBagLayout. But I doubt that it is more used than the other layouts, it always depends on what you want to achieve. I think there's no recipe.
I do not use GridBagLayout any more because it is quite complicated and has a bug (#4254022) that caused a lot of trouble for me. But as you can read in this forum many people like GridBagLayout.
I use TableLayout (for forms) and I don't mind deploying one more jar, in big applications you'll have loads of. I even replaced the GridBagLayout by TableLayout in the classes of the JW article and it works fine and is simple.
So, I'm sorry, I can't give any best practice, only my experience!
I hope you'll get along with your layouts!
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