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		Vincent Brabant Vincent has been a developer for 10 years and a Java developer for three years. He likes working with open source projects, like tomcat, ant, and NetBeans, and joined the NetBeans project to see first hand if open source projects were a reality not just a myth. He believes that NetBeans is more open source than other open source projects ;-) Vincent leads the localization of the IDE in french, and supports the french speaking members of NetBeans through the mail lists and localisation of content and news. He is a strong advocate promoting NetBeans and Java. Outside of computers, Vincent adores his wife and children and looks foward to a time when he can make more time to actively persue his passion to travel. Vincent Brabant's blog Reaction about the Charles Ditzel Interview Posted by vbrabant on October 14, 2006 at 2:19 AM PDT Sun Developer Network published an interessting interview of Charles Ditzel. But I wanted to react on some part. We also occasionally hear that the layout manager, GroupLayout, which the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder uses to create its great user interfaces (UIs), causes some sort of lock-in or is proprietary. It's in JDK 6 and included as a library for use in JDK 5.0 and 1.4. As you can see, it's neither a lock-in nor proprietary. He is right by saying that you have no lock-in nor proprietary. But at run-time only. Because at development time, you are locked with NetBeans, and his famous .form file. When that will be fixed. When the GUI editor of NetBeans will be able to edit any java source file WITHOUT needs of a proprietary .form file, then, only then, you could say that there is no lock-in. » Login or register to post comments 207 visits Printer-friendly version Related Topics >> Netbeans Comments Comments are listed in date ascending order (oldest first)		Categories Netbeans Patterns J2SE Java User Groups Java Communications Archives October 2006 June 2006 October 2005 August 2005 June 2005 April 2005 December 2004 September 2004 June 2004 April 2004 March 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 Recent Entries Reaction about the Charles Ditzel Interview what I would like to see in a next version of NetBeans NetBeans 5.0 Flash Tutorials in French