The Eclipse consortium tomorrow will announce the establishment of the Visual Editor Project, a new effort to create and deliver an open visual GUI construction and editing platform. The project is designed to generically work with any user interface framework and programming language Eclipse supports; ultimately, it will implement a reference GUI builder for the Java Swing/JFC and SWT graphical user interface frameworks.
It’s good to see competition for Project Rave even before its release. The VEP looks like more of a simplification of GUI design than anything else. Of course creating GUIs in Swing or SWT is one of the more common grumbles about Java development. Every bit helps.