Complete list

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7358775/java-gui-frameworks-what-to-choose-swing-swt-awt-swingx-jgoodies-javafx

SWT and QT are excluded from the review because they’re not pure Java and require special installation of native components/libraries.

JGoodies

• Version: Forms 1.8.0
• Download here
•  Advantages
  • Downloadable sample Java applications (jar)
  • Works on Raspberry Pi (verified)
  • Large set of components
  • Binding, MVC
•  Disadvantages
  • No documentation
  • Not free
  • Latest version is not in Maven repository
  • Latest version for Maven: Forms 1.7.2

Apache Pivot

• Version: 2.0.4
• Advantages
  • Latest version in Maven repository
  • Works on Raspberry Pi (verified)
  • Free
  • Large set of components
  • Special language (BXML) for components layout
• Disadvantages
  • No samples as Java application in jar files
    • Applications can be extracted from from “webapps/pivot-tutorials.war“
  • No on-line documentation
    • Tutorials can be browsed (in Chrome) if Java plug-in is installed. See instructions here.  Important: Pay attention to 32/64 bit version.
  • Samples only for web-start or as applets (not easy to run because of browser/Java permissions etc.)

Running stand-alone examples (tutorials)

1. Download apache-pivot-2.0.4.zip from “Binary Distributions” section here.
2. Extract archive files
3. Unzip apache-pivot-2.0.4/webapps/pivot-tutorials.war
4. Extract all jar files from pivot-tutorials.war/lib directory:
   • pivot-charts-2.0.4.jar
   • pivot-core-2.0.4.jar
   • pivot-tutorials-2.0.4.jar
   • pivot-web-2.0.4.jar
   • pivot-wtk-2.0.4.jar
   • pivot-wtk-terra-2.0.4.jar
   • svgSalamander-tiny.jar
5. Create file sample.sh (executable) with following content:

   export DISPLAY=:0.0
   java -cp pivot-charts-2.0.4.jar:pivot-core-2.0.4.jar:pivot-tutorials-2.0.4.jar:pivot-web-2.0.4.jar:pivot-wtk-2.0.4.jar:pivot-wtk-terra-2.0.4.jar:svgSalamander-tiny.jar org.apache.pivot.tutorials.KitchenSink
   

6. Run sample.sh
7. Update class name org.apache.pivot.tutorials.KitchenSink in sh file to run other tutorials:
   • org.apache.pivot.tutorials.HelloBXML
   • org.apache.pivot.tutorials.HelloJava
   • org.apache.pivot.tutorials.explorer.ComponentExplorer
   • org.apache.pivot.tutorials.stocktracker.StockTracker
   • More class names/packages can be browsed in Pivot source code repository.

Running example at Pi start

See LXDE solution at http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8734/execute-script-on-start-up

SwingX

Not really a separate library. All stable components are already included into standard Java Swing library.

Swing

Already included in Java basic installation, so the version depend on installed JVM.

• Advantages
  • No need to include a library in the application (already included in Java Runtime)
  • Pretty good  documented
• Disadvantages
  • Old programming paradigm
  • Less components
  • Bad look and feel