Does GUIDE support GroupLayout(Matisse) or SpringLayout?
Currently, GUIDE does not have first-class support for either GroupLayout or SpringLayout. One of our goals when developing layout support in GUIDE was to make sure that user interactions were stable and predictable. Both SpringLayout and GroupLayout require that the structure of layouts have an obscure series-parallel property that is not always present in free-form designs. When this property is absent layout inference algorithms tend to behave in a way that does not make sense to the user (components jump around when certain edges are aligned). This is discussed in detail in an article on Layout in GUIDE. We will continue to research the support we have for these layout managers and will retintroduce them in a future release if and when a stable and intuitive method of inference is found.
