A constraint-based relative layout manager. The classes in this package jointly implement a layout manager which uses a dependency analyzer to support an arbitrary set of inter-component dependencies (as long as they are consistent, and sufficient to fully constrain the layout of the components).

The classes you'll interact with the most are the layout manager itself, {@link com.brunchboy.util.swing.relativelayout.RelativeLayout}, and the two concrete {@link com.brunchboy.util.swing.relativelayout.Constraint} implementations, {@link com.brunchboy.util.swing.relativelayout.AttributeConstraint} and {@link com.brunchboy.util.swing.relativelayout.AxisConstraint}.

To simplify the construction of a rich set of constraints, you can use an XML file parsed by {@link com.brunchboy.util.swing.relativelayout.XmlConstraintBuilder}.

There is an introduction and tutorial for working with this package on O'Reilly's ONJava site.

As noted below, this code has been released using the open source BSD License in order to give the most freedom and flexibility to potential users.

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