Is this the recomended way to create a GUI??

Question

Hi all,
Is this method of creating a resizable form acceptable?package ddbms.gui;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.ButtonGroup;
import javax.swing.JRadioButton;
import javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder;
import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Color;
import ddbms.gui.MenuBar;
public class GUIMainFrame
          extends JFrame {
     public GUIMainFrame() {
          super("Distributed Database Sampler");
          m = new MenuBar(el);
          this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          this.setJMenuBar(m);
          initComponents();
          // this.setContentPane(panel);
          this.pack();
          this.setVisible(true);
     private void sqlTable(){
          dbTable.setBorder(eb);
         dbTable.setModel(new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel(
                   new Object[][] { {null, null, null, null}
                   , {null, null, null, null}
                   , {null, null, null, null}
                   , {null, null, null, null}
                   new String[] {
                   "Title 1", "Title 2", "Title 3", "Title 4"
         dbTable.setGridColor(new java.awt.Color(204, 204, 204));
     private void initComponents() {
          buttonGroup = new ButtonGroup();
          jRadioButton1 = new JRadioButton("Site 1");
          jRadioButton2 = new JRadioButton("Site 2");
          jRadioButton3 = new JRadioButton("Site 3");
          jRadioButton4 = new JRadioButton("Site 4");
          radioButtonPanel = new JPanel();
          sqlTextField = new JTextField();
          sqlRunButton = new JButton("Execute SQL");
          textButtonPanel = new JPanel();
          radioLayoutPanel = new JPanel();
          commandBorderPanel = new JPanel();
          commandRootPanel = new JPanel();
          dbTable = new JTable();
          dbTableScrollPane = new JScrollPane();
          dataPanel = new JPanel();
          dataRootPanel = new JPanel();
          debugText = new JTextArea();
          debugText.setBorder(eb);
//debugScrollPane - holds debugText
          debugScrollPane = new JScrollPane();
          debugScrollPane.setBorder(new TitledBorder(eb, "SQL Monitor",TitledBorder.DEFAULT_JUSTIFICATION,TitledBorder.DEFAULT_POSITION,new Font("Trebuchet MS", 0, 12),new Color(153, 153, 153)));
          debugScrollPane.setViewportView(debugText);
//Setup JTable for database         
          sqlTable();
//dbTableScrollPane - holds dbTable
          dbTableScrollPane.setBorder(new javax.swing.border.TitledBorder(eb, "Returned Table",TitledBorder.TRAILING,TitledBorder.DEFAULT_POSITION, new Font("Trebuchet MS", 0, 12), new Color(153, 153, 153)));
          dbTableScrollPane.setViewportView(dbTable);
//dataPanel - holds debugScrollPane(debugTextArea) & dbTableScrollPane(dbTable)
          dataPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.GridLayout(1, 2, 16, 20));
          dataPanel.add(debugScrollPane);
          dataPanel.add(dbTableScrollPane);
//dataRootPane - holds dataPanel(debugScrollPane(debugTextArea) & dbTableScrollPane(dbTable))
          dataRootPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.CardLayout(16, 16));
          dataRootPanel.add(dataPanel, "card");
//Radio Buttons
          buttonGroup.add(jRadioButton1);
          jRadioButton1.addActionListener(el);
          jRadioButton1.setActionCommand("1");
          buttonGroup.add(jRadioButton2);
          jRadioButton2.addActionListener(el);
          jRadioButton2.setActionCommand("2");
          buttonGroup.add(jRadioButton3);
          jRadioButton3.addActionListener(el);
          jRadioButton3.setActionCommand("3");
          buttonGroup.add(jRadioButton4);
          jRadioButton4.addActionListener(el);
          jRadioButton4.setActionCommand("4");
//Radio Button Panel- holds jradiobuttons
          radioButtonPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.GridLayout(2, 2));
          radioButtonPanel.add(jRadioButton1);
          radioButtonPanel.add(jRadioButton2);
          radioButtonPanel.add(jRadioButton3);
          radioButtonPanel.add(jRadioButton4);
//radioLayoutPanel - controls horizontal position of radioButtonPanel
          radioLayoutPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.CardLayout(180,0));
          radioLayoutPanel.add(radioButtonPanel, "card");
//SQLTextField
          sqlTextField.setBorder(eb);
          sqlTextField.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 24));
//sqlRunButton
          sqlRunButton.addActionListener(el);
          sqlRunButton.setActionCommand("run");
          sqlRunButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(120, 25));
//textButtonPanel - holds sqlTextField and sqlRadioButton
          textButtonPanel.add(sqlTextField);
          textButtonPanel.add(sqlRunButton);
//commandBorderPanel holds textButtonPanel(sqlTextField, sqlRunButton) and radioLayoutPanel(radioPanelButton(r1,r2,r3,r4))
          commandBorderPanel.setBorder(new TitledBorder(eb, "SQL Test String",TitledBorder.TRAILING,TitledBorder.DEFAULT_POSITION,new Font("Trebuchet MS", 0, 12), new Color(153, 153, 153)));
          commandBorderPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.GridLayout(1,2, 0, 0));
          commandBorderPanel.add(textButtonPanel);
          commandBorderPanel.add(radioLayoutPanel);
//commandRootPanel holds commandBorderPanel(textButtonPanel(sqlTextField, sqlRunButton) & radioLayoutPanel(radioPanelButton(r1,r2,r3,r4)))
          commandRootPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.CardLayout(15, 0));
          commandRootPanel.add(commandBorderPanel, "card");
          getContentPane().setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());
          getContentPane().add(commandRootPanel, java.awt.BorderLayout.NORTH);
          getContentPane().add(dataRootPanel, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
     private JPanel dataPanel;
     private JPanel dataRootPanel;
     private JScrollPane dbTableScrollPane;
     private JTable dbTable;
     private JScrollPane debugScrollPane;
     private JTextArea debugText;
     private ButtonGroup buttonGroup;
     private JRadioButton jRadioButton1;
     private JRadioButton jRadioButton2;
     private JRadioButton jRadioButton3;
     private JRadioButton jRadioButton4;
     private JPanel radioButtonPanel;
     private JTextField sqlTextField;
     private JButton sqlRunButton;
     private JPanel textButtonPanel;
     private JPanel radioLayoutPanel;
     private JPanel commandBorderPanel;
     private JPanel commandRootPanel;
     private EtchedBorder eb = new EtchedBorder();
     private MenuBar m;
     private EventListener el = new EventListener();
}

Answer 1

You could almost say that if you use any of the
layout managers it will auto resize the form if the
frame is resized.If thats the case am i not breaking the rules by adding panels on panels
to get the frame to keep the same relative look?