Best Layout for Simple forms

Question

I am sick of having to do all of these workarounds for create simple forms using the Swing API. What is the easiest and most effective way to create a simple form ? And whats Layouts should I use. Below is an example of what the form would look like.
Name{Label}: {TextField}
Address:{Label} {TextField}
etc.. etc..
all aligned. What is the best solution for this type of typical form. Currently I'm trying to utilize the BoxLayout nested but its very difficult to align the labels and the text fields or likewise the text fields etc.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

ParagraphLayout. it was designed exactly for this type of thisng
label1 : textfield1
label2:  textarea in scrollpane
           :  // text area occupies severals column (based on te preferred height)
label3:  textfield2
           :  textfield3
label4:  combobox1 gap label5: combobox2
// the code to generate th edata entry form abouve using ParagraphLayout
JPanel p = new JPanel(new ParapgraphLayout());
p.add(label1, ParagraphLayout.NEW_PARAGRAPH);
p.add(textfield1);
p.add(label2, ParagraphLayout.NEW_PARAGRAPH);
p.add(textareaScrollpanel1);
p.add(label3, ParagraphLayout.NEW_PARAGRAPH);
p.add(textfield2);
p.add(textfield3, ParagraphLayout.NEW_LINE);
p.add(label4, ParagraphLayout.NEW_PARAGRAPH);
p.add(combobox1);
p.add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(10));  // 10  pixel gap
p.add(label5);
p.add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(10));  // 10  pixel gap
p.add(combobox2); you can get the Paragraph layout at: http://www.jhlabs.com/java/layout/
they also have other nice layout (like GridLayoutPlus - similiar to GridLayout, but allows different row and column size)