The Spring Framework's applicability in the context of Swing seems to be underhighlighted, at least when one looks around on the web. What does Spring have to offer in this context? Rather than a highly theoretical discussion, let's look at a complete, compilable example, step by step, and draw our conclusions from there.
The goal of this project is to provide a small and cohesive set of powerful UI components with functionality similar to or superseding that of Vista Explorer and Office 2007. The components provide consistent visuals under the existing core and third-party look-and-feels, respect the DPI settings of the user desktop and follow the core Swing guidelines in the external APIs and the internal implementation details.
Swing has lot of components built-in but still some are missing. This project provides the developer community with these missing components, components inspired (copied?!) from modern user interfaces.
jtracc allows you to translate your JSF web-application directly in the web-browser. You will never again lose the context during the translation process! This is realizable by extending your project with jtracc (more information available in the tutorials).
The InfoNode Docking Windows framework allows you to create a powerful Swing GUI for your application and rich client with very little code. Just take your normal Swing components with application content and place them inside docking windows. The windows can then be arranged in advanced layouts using split windows, tab windows and floating windows. There are virtually no limitations to the window layouts you can create.
Éric Piel, and A. Gonzalez-Sanchez. SINTER '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ESEC/FSE workshop on Software integration and evolution @ runtime, page 3--10. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)