by JIDE Support » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:45 am
All JIDE components are java-bean so they can be used in any gui designer in MOST cases. I said MOST cases as each gui designer has some kinds of "tricks" to get certain features to work or it sometimes even hard-coded certain things. For the well-known tricks, we knew those and will consider it in our code, mostly included in java-beaninfo.jar. But that's not guaranteed as it is not a standard. So all I can say right now is you just give it a try and let us know if certain component not working.
On the other hand, I don't expect you to use components from JIDE Docking Framework and JIDE Action Framework and use them in any gui designers. They will never work. And you probably shouldn't do that anyway as we have our own Visual Designer tool for this purpose. You can use other gui designer to design the content pane for DockableFrame and let Visual Designer to handle the overall layout of docking framework.
Thanks,
JIDE Software Technical Support Team