About Layouts Provided by JDeveloper

JDeveloper provides the following standard layout managers from the Java AWT: BorderLayout, FlowLayout, GridLayout , CardLayout, and GridBagLayout. For Swing, BoxLayout2 and OverLayout2, have been included.

JDeveloper also provides three custom layouts:

XYLayout that keeps components you put in a container at their original size and location (x,y coordinates).
PaneLayout, used by the SplitPanel control.
VerticalFlowLayout, which is very similar to FlowLayout except that it arranges the components vertically instead of horizontally.

You can create custom layouts of your own, or experiment with other layouts like the ones in the sun.awt classes, or third-party layout managers, many of which are public domain on the Web. If you want to use a custom layout in the Java Visual Editor, you may have to provide a Java helper class file to help the Java Visual Editor use the layout.

JDeveloper's layout managers are explained in detail in the following sections.

Most of your UI designs will use a combination of layouts by nesting different layout panels within each other.