Tired of Layouts

Hi,
I don't know whether I can ever become a good GUI programmer. I am getting screwed up every time my tester opens my GUI apps and tests something. And I am having a great problem with layouting the components. Let me explain what I have just went through...
I was having JTables at many places in my application. And we wanted to have a consistent size for all the tables throughtout the application. But because the number of columns are different in the tables, I used preferred sizes for the JTables and I was setting the preferred sizes by getting the screen sizes thinking that it work on all screen resolutions.
But, when I resized the window lesser then the preferred sizes of the JTables, I got screwed up. The tables were becoming very small that it can hardly make a single cell visible. So, I think setting preferred sizes definetly is not the solution for placing the components in a container.
What kind out layout should I do if I have to use fixed size for JTables but not getting crashed when the window size comes smaller than the preferred size. Or, should I not use preferred sizes at all if the windows can be resized. And by the way, I am adding the Tables to Scrollpanes, so this is clearly stating that there is something seriously wrong with my approach.
And what is the best and clean way to develop a swing application, I am able to understand all the examples in the swing tutorial, but when it comes to putting several components and do all the actions, I am messing it up. I love Java, but I would like to do it in a neat and good way. Please suggest me something.
Thank you very much.

If you want the tables to always be readable then you will probably need to setResizable(false). At some point the user has to realize that they can't make the window real small and still expect to read the data. Because no matter what layout you use something has to give when the window is resized.
Just read each how to for each layout and keep in mind how each one honors or doesn't honor max size, min size, and preferred size. Nesting layouts is your friend.
Keep in mind user experience, and user expectations.

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Yes, the BI Publisher template builder for Word is different. Naturally it is better for some tasks and maybe weaker for some other ones. Nobody forced the E-Business Suite teams to take up BI/XML Publisher - I was PM in one of the teams so I know for sure - we all decided that we rather use BI Publisher. In our eyes it is a step forward and not 10 steps back.
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:35:58 +0000 (UTC), "adambarisoff"
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> Example - client site I'm working on:
>
http://adambarisoff.com/btr/index.html
>
> Notice the gap between the house pic on the left side
and the navbar
>underneath - it shouldn't be there, and it's not on all
pages - but in IE
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