News on the JavaLobby site reports that the GroupLayout LayoutManager which is behind the simple drag and drop UI design tool Matisse in Netbeans 5.0 has been adopted and integrated into Java Mustang, which will be released as Java SE 6.0.
This is awesome news – the simplicity of UI development in NetBeans 5.0’s Matisse GUI builder will now be part of the Java SE core APIs – this goes a long way to improving Java Swing GUI development.