Learning to create UI

I've been doing programming in VB before, and I've been using Lua, and now I'm learning java for school. The tasks we have got at school so far have been really easy, just "show a message dialog with this and that text and two multiplied numbers", and I want to learn how to create real programs, with UI.

I'm using JBuilder now, because JBuilder was the only program I could get working, I couldn't get the Sun compiler to work properly.

Anyway, JBuilder REALLY sux at making UIs... Atleast compared to all other IDEs I've tried for any other programming language.

So, I need some help at how to create the UI manually with codes.

Does anyone know of some good website where this could be easy to learn? Since the school is not teaching us about UI, they dont have any useful files on the subject. I've been trying some by myself to find any useful websites, but I dont know exactly what to search for. "programming java" doesn't give me alot of useful hits:p

[999 byte] By [Athenea] at [2007-10-3 3:57:55]
# 1
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/GUI/Just Google for Java GUI tutorials , should give you everything you want and probably stuff you didn't realise you wanted.....
Tom_Timpsona at 2007-7-14 21:56:20 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...
# 2

Also, Jbuilder isn't the best, your right there.

eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ is nearly an industry standard (I know some people will disagree with that comment) so might be worth having a go playing around with that.

Also I used http://www.jcreator.com/ in college, nothing flash, but did the job and would run on a calculator it's so small.

Tom_Timpsona at 2007-7-14 21:56:21 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...