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We were having a problem getting Swing components to appear on panels,
despite having added the JARs to the CLASSPATH and IDEPATH (in
\bin\jbuilder.ini), and having added them to a component tab page.
Then, we discovered that by creating an AWT button and then changing it
to a JButton, in the source, it magically appeared on the Design pane!
From then on, we able to add Swing controls visually, in the usual way.

To add swing to jbuilder:

In Tools IDE Options and add to the class path
c:\java\swing-0.7\swing.jar and c:\java\swing-0.7\windows.jar

To add it to the palette - use Tools Configure Pallette Add a new page,
then click on the tab add from archive.

When you switch to design mode, JBuilder parses the source file and
extracts design information. You should add this line to the import
section BEFORE you add swing controls to a form. import
com.sun.java.swing.*;

To design things fast using swing in Jbuilder:

Well the easiest way to do this is to use AWT components - these are
very similar to swing components. Then replace all the generated names
with the swing equivalent (ie add a J to the front), and comment out the
import java.awt.*; line.

i.e.
Applet -> JApplet
Button -> JButton
Panel -> JPanel