have been using java for quite sometime now(about 4 months). Things seemed to be going smootly till I started learning swing, and am not finding it funny at all, its tideous, unstable(especially layout). I just wanted to know how important it is for programmer to master swing, is it really that important. Is that all there is to desktop applications, because that where I would love to concentrate on. THNKS iN ADvance FoR your COmments