Pretty soon I'm going to be writing a front end for a scientific data management and analysis tool I've developed. Its going to need to have multiple views (upload new data, database viewer, analyze data, etc) and I want to be able to lay things out by hand, as opposed to specifying some x,y coordinates, compiling, and seeing what it looks like.

All of the layout managers I've used in Java before have sucked, badly. I've also dabbled with a few GUI designers and found them not be very intuitive. What do you all recommend? I'd prefer if it was an Eclipse plug-in.

11/14/2008 9:37:13 AM

Also, if anyone knows of a package allows me to interface with Excel and auto populate charts that would be great. I would even settle for a package that plots some data on a x-y graph and dumps it to a PDF.

11/14/2008 10:33:35 AM

SAS has a package that does exactly this. Since you're still a student, I'm pretty sure you should be licensed for it. I would talk to someone in the NCSU Data Analytics department.

11/15/2008 1:43:30 AM

matlab

11/15/2008 1:54:01 AM

visual editor for eclipse

11/17/2008 2:55:25 AM

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"SAS has a package that does exactly this."

this man speaks the tr00f.

sas/graph is pretty awesome.

as far as i know, our license agreement with ncsu extends to all currently enrolled students... you should at least be able to play with base sas on any of the unity computers, and i'm sure someone's got sas/graph installed somewhere on campus.

11/17/2008 5:56:39 AM

Flex Builder.

1/6/2009 8:55:11 PM