Netbeans, Matisse, Swing, JDK5 & JDK6

This is more a related to a combination of Netbeans, the JRE and Swing.
I'm developing a Swing application in Netbeans (currently NB 6 M10) with JDK/JRE6. I'm using Matisse so there is quite a bit of code automatically generated for Swing components by Netbeans in my classes.
Yesterday I wanted to give a copy of my application to a friend to test, but he only has JRE5 installed. Aha, I thought, I'll just re-compile using JDK5. Unfortunately lots of Netbean's auto-generated code fails to build. I think it's mostly the layout related that fails.
Does anyone know if it's somehow possible to re-generate this code automatically under JDK5? I read somewhere there were no API changes between JDK5 and JDK6 (apologies if I'm mis-informed).
Thanks

if you have already switched the platform to JDK5 then you need to give him the dist folder because the problem is that in the JDK6 API the GroupLayout class was added which was not in JDK5. Netbeans worked around this for users with JDK5 by including a library called swinglayouts.jar, and it is packaged in the dist folder of your project. so just send that folder to your friend and you should be good.
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