How to create a docking panel in Java?

Question

How to create a docking panel in Java?

Answer 1

If you want to use the Swing docking infrastructure in your application, some of them already exist:

• Infonode
• Mydoggy
• Jocking ¹

However, if you mean adding a clean Java dock in the spirit of things like YzDock or others (the GNOME-DO extension is another example), I think you will have no other choice but to do it yourself. Fortunately, there is some prior art (yes, it uses text instead of images, but this is only a JMenuItem / JButton question).

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Answer 2

Also try dock.javaforge.com - it looks good, has recently been updated and licensed under the more permissive LGPL 2.1 .