Major Description
Please use for CM the new AppFramework:
https://appframework.dev.java.net/
i.e. JSR-296 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=296
This framework can greatly simplify the code impose good coding conventions for Swing apps, it will be part of the JDK (but untill than it still does the same job as a library), it's small and it's already supported/integrated by many tools/frameworks:
- NB 6 supports it out of the box
- even the well known JGoodies supports it now: http://jgoodies.com/downloads/changes.html