Creating GUI component that includes other components

Question

Hello, I need to create an UNIVERSAL FORM (panel) consisting of several textboxes and labels. These textboxes and labels will be defined in XML. I want it as a GUI JavaBean. It should be made from a panel with some layout and it should consist other components. Here are my questions:
1) What class to derive from? JPanel?
2) Well, when I override a GUI Swing component I must implement a paint method but this is a bit strange. I just want to set up the textboxes -- I do not need any special painting. A question appears -- is JavaBean technology good for this situation? Is there any better solution?

Answer 1

I mean why this doesn`t work:
public class Uniform extends JComponent implements
Serializable {
     private String xmlContent;
     private int type;
     private JPanel panel;
     public Uniform() {
          panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1,2));
          panel.add(new JTextField("A"));
          panel.add(new JTextField("B"));
     public void paint(Graphics g) {
          panel.paint(g);
}Is it a good solution? How would you solve the
problem?
Thanks for your ideas.If you mean by 'dont' work' that your text boxes and panel doesn't appear, then it's because you're missing this line in your constructor:
public Uniform() {
  this.add (panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
}Regards,
Devyn