Netbeans GUI editor generating its own incomprehensible code

Question

When creating a new project in netbeans, if i select JAVA Desktop application, it creates some code which I DO NOT RECOGNISE AT ALL as what i had learnt in swing.

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Answer 1

You'll find more about org.jdesktop.application.SingleFrameApplication here. Brief precis, however: this is part of the Swing Application Framework. Matisse (now called the Java Swing GUI Builder) works, AFAIK, strictly with the application framework, not with general Swing applications. Basically, if you're working with raw Swing, you're pretty much on your own.