Swing, Netbeans Platform or what else?

Hi,
I have this question. Is there an alternative to Swing? I started to learn Swing, but it seems a bit ackward to me, are there any other GUI libraries? I know of the Netbeans Platform, but I don't understand what's it about yet.
I'll appreciate your help, thanks.

kevinaworkman wrote:
Aardenon wrote:
I just started with Swing, I'm going through the Oracle tutorials and it is yet hard to embrace.Okay, but what about it do you find hard to embrace? If we knew what you didn't like, we'd be able to help you find something you do like. (or explain why you should like Swing anyway, heh)
Powerful, yet sort of out of reach. Sorry, I don't really know what that means.
I don't know, perhaps it's just a first impression.Yeah, probably. You can't expect to just "get" something as soon as you look at it. Understanding Swing will take weeks (or months, or even years).
I think this might be what I was "affraid" of. Perhaps I didn't expect it to be that large and complex. But I am new to Java and I don't have any comparison.
I also read that Swing will not be developed any longer.Where did you read this? It is simply not true (err.. I hope).I'm quite sure I saw this somewhere on the Netbeans website or within the Netbeans IDE 6.9.1.
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So I wonder, are there any alternatives, perhaps it is wise to start with something else if there is a choice.There isn't, really. I guess you could try to use AWT, but I would bet you'd find the same things you don't like there as well.
What about the Netbeans Platform, would anyone advise it?I don't really know what that is (GUI builders are the root of all evil), but I would definitely recommend learning how to code Swing, if you want to get into programming GUIs in Java.Thanks for your reply.

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