Support for JGoodies Forms is coming to JDeveloper, which is great news. On my current project we're using JGoodies looks, to make our Swing application look more windows like (and, btw, none of our end users has ever complained about the fact that the swing application doesn't look like a native windows application), but we've mostly been using GridBagLayout to implement forms. I actually like the GridBagLayout, once you know how to use it, it's really flexible, and the forms look good enough. It also helps that JDeveloper visual swing editor is pretty good. I only wish JDeveloper would allow you to set the GridBagLayout constraints for more than one cell at a time.