VE (Visual Editor) for Eclipse - all for free

My apologies to regular readers of this news group and the OP for
simply reproducing my most recent post on the topic. It is incomplete
in that it does not include several tools that are intended to build
the GUI but which omit the rest of the facilities that make up an IDE.

Netbeans (www.netbeans.org) is free and Open Source. I think you will
find it the best choice. Borland JBuilder Personal Edition
(http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/personal/index.html) is also free (or
$10.00 if you want it on CD). Oracle's JDeveloper
(http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/content.html) is free but the
license severely restricts what you can do with programs you write if
you do not pay for it.

Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is a popular Open Source IDE and there are
free plug-ins like http://www.assisiplugins.com/index_start.html and
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/ that provide limited WYSIWYG GUI
development.

Sun One Studio 4 Community Edition, which is derived from Netbeans, is
still available, without charge, from
http://jsecom16d.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=FJCI9-401
-TL9M&TransactionId=try&LMLoadBalanced=
but has been superseded by Studio 5. Sun suggest you use Netbeans if
you want a free version. IBM has a free version of Visual Age for Java
at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/FrameData/Master?OpenDocument&FSet=1&Doc3=4
589&Title=Overview&DPart=Overview&Doc4=4594.
It has a limit on the number of classes in your application and, in
any case, has been superseded by Websphere Studio Application
Developer (http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/studioappdev/).
Websphere is not free but a sixty day trial is available.

I believe that this is a complete list of free Java IDE's that include
a WYSIWYG GUI builder and contains references to all the commercial
vendors of such a product. Please submit a follow-up if you have a
correction.