Best way to create a GUI questionaire

Hello everyone
What is the best way to go about building a GUI based questionnaire? with questions and line for the answers.?
Thanks for the answers.

What a fantastically vague question.
Have you considered handing out sheets of paper and ballpoint pens? :o)
You could do a simple questionnaire in HTML.
Form layouts in Java are probably best done in TableLayout (third party, free, see Google)
But to answer your question directly, undoubtedly the best way to build it is to do so in a comfy chair with a nice view, listening to some Senser or perhaps Orbital, whilst consuming a decent bottle of Gigondas.

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So far I have been using swing, with some awt thrown
in, which doesn't seem too bad.Swing and AWT don't mix. Evil.
Thing is that many
people have mentioned better alternitatives, a few of
which I have downloading right now. One concern I
have is that if I learn a 3rd party api, it could
stop being supported and could be hard to find docs;Then don't, or at least go with the more common ones like SWT.
plus if I am going for a job, they probably wouln't
care I have mastered Bob's leet toolkit, even if it
really is the best thing out there.1) A prorammer should be able to work his way through any good API
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3) Knowing APIs is one thing, knowing ergonomy a completely different one. You can build crap GUIs with any API; if you want to use your GUI-creating skills for your resume, you better learn that, too.
Then again I could not learn an api at all, really
not against a visual editor but think netbeans is theVisual editors are crap. You'lkl never be able to maintain their clumsy autogenerated code.
Then there's other weird things, like liveconnect and
doing everything in html... and flash ???...Yes?
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