We are working in Eclipse, which is not WYSIWYG. Although I have heard some good things about NetBeans. The last .Net Codecamp I went to earlier this year actually had a couple Java presentations. One of the ones I went to was called something like Swix, I believe. It's basically using XML to hold the layouts. And you just put your code in the Java class and they get merged at compile time. So all the layout code doesn't get in the way. I thought it was cool. At least similar to .net where you can hide all the UI specific coding.

The 2 biggest differences between Java and .net is defining the layout and coding for the events. That's another reason to get a Java guy. I've seen it where the Listeners aren't optimally defined and you can see the same code at least twice when you're debugging.

>Perry,
>I appreciate your comments. You may be right in your comment that without an experienced Java programmer a group of VFP programmers working on a Java project are screwed, but I sincerely hope not. We do have one guy from a mainframe/linux background...
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>In your Java project are you using a GUI tool? We are using a beta version of NetBeans 6.0 and it appears to give a visual way to work with a gridbaglayout ( where do they come up with these names??).
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>When we were working in .Net we knew the environment was different but we felt like we were in the same solar system. Java is so different that, at this point, I am disoriented. I felt much the same way when I moved from FoxPro DOS to VFP- the world had changed and it took a while for me to retrain my thoughts. Having gone thru this once I know that it is doable, it is just going to take some time.