Desktop Frameworks

I'm looking for an off the shelf desktop framework based on Swing. This should include things like window management, support for docking areas, flotaing windows.
The target of the application is a power user interfaces connecting up to a J2EE back-end server. The desktop lcient has to display numerous active graphs & schematics which are suited to a browser environment it is believed.
I've seen that NetBeans & Eclipse offer some help in this area. However NetBeans seems to be focussed towards the manipulation/viewing of files. The source of data will come from a remote source.
Barry

NetBeans Platform now has a WebStart launcher, and some companies are developing applications that get their data through j2ee or xml services, so, no the netbeans platform is not restricted to only files.
<-- Repost from http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=422&thread=320115 -->
For a headstart in building an application check out NetBeans Platform:
http://www.netbeans.org/products/platform/index.html
This is the opensource code to Sun Studio, which can also be used to get many programming years ahead when building a deaktop application, and ofcourse you can use NetBeans IDE to develop with as well. It's all free :)
<-- Repost from http://www.javalobby.org/threadMode3.jsp?message=58894877&thread=7591&forum=61 -->
NetBeans offers a far more superior application base with more features with stronger support because more companies are using it.
I used it to port Minex5, a metals and minerals mining CAD and exploration program holding over 6 million lines of Fortran and C spanning back to the 60's. NetBeans at this stage wasn't supporting the idea of the platform at all and it still was remarkably easy, after a couple years of Platform support by Sun, you will be remarkably surprised just how easy NetBeans Platform buidling will be. On top of this it will save you 5 to 10 programmer years in your app.
Minex5 now has client-server architecture, full internationalisation, complex file and database explorer, complex options and preferences per User & per Project,
multiple multithreaded embedded OpenGL canvas' amidst a complex window system. None of this could have been achieved without the use of the NetBeans Platform. Minex5 has done a remarkable catch-up to it's competitor's when it comes to it's UI (It was always infront with functionality).
A big care to take when evaulating Eclipse as a application platform is that you will be stuck with SWT. Your applications will no longer be 100% Java, it becomes a difficult to embed Swing, whether it is your own or third party products/plugins. This has been the big reason companies steer away from helping Eclipse get its Platform off the ground because they do not want to be tied into a non-standard non-java API: SWT.
My recommendation would be to choose the platform that has taken flight already, NetBeans Platform :)

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