Joseph Cozad is the Java technologist for Motorola's Advanced Media Platforms in Austin, Texas. As a Sun Microsystems certified Java developer, he serves as Motorola's corporate knowledge champion on Java technology. Prior to being a Java technologist, he established and coordinated online interactive systems.
A layout manager is an object that positions and resizes components within a
display area according to a specific algorithm. The Java 1.2 AWT package
provides 10 layout manager classes that can be used to accomplish this task.
Each has a defined set of behaviors that organize components in a container.
Each Java container instance is associated with an instance of one of these
layout managers. By nesting one container/layout manager combination within
another one, complex screen layouts can be implemented.
Sometimes the layout managers don't individually meet all the layout
requirements needed to implement a particular GUI design. And in the case of
complex layout designs, nesting container/layout manager combinations can
produce code that is hard to understand. This article discusses what a layout
manager is and how it is implemented in Java. Through a real-world exa... (more)
Joseph Cozad is the Java technologist for Motorola's Advanced Media Platforms in Austin, Texas. As a Sun Microsystems certified Java developer, he 
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