About Us

FormDev Software GmbH is a company specialized in creating software development tools for Java GUIs. Founded in 2006 as a privately held company, FormDev Software GmbH is located in Brunnthal (near Munich), Germany. By creating innovative high quality development tools, we help our customers to increase their productivity. Tens of thousands of customers worldwide use our tools.

Our founder, Karl Tauber, has more than 25 years of experience in creating GUIs. Because of the lack of powerful visual GUI builders for Java/Swing, he started in 2003 the development of JFormDesigner, our innovative GUI designer for Java/Swing user interfaces.

Imprint

Address: FormDev Software GmbH
Aventinusweg 5
85649 Brunnthal
Germany
Phone: +49 (8104) 66 82 57 (no support)
E-mail: info@formdev.com
Support e-mail: support@formdev.com
Sales e-mail: sales@formdev.com
Register of companies: Handelsregister HRB 164093
Amtsgericht München
VAT ID: DE251470141
Managing director: Karl Tauber

History

December 2024: 20 Years JFormDesigner
October 2023: JFormDesigner 8.2 released
FlatLaf IntelliJ themes
NetBeans plug-in: look and feel switching
June 2023: JFormDesigner 8.1 released
FlatLaf macOS themes
SVG icons in forms
December 2022: FlatLaf 3 released
macOS themes
rounded selection and icons
Fonts
September 2022: JFormDesigner 8 released
FlatLaf support
Jannuary 2022: FlatLaf 2 released
Styling individual components using CSS syntax
Typography
TextField: support leading and trailing components
March 2021: FlatLaf 1.1 released
Native window decorations on Windows 10
Unified title bar backgrounds on Windows 10
February 2021: FlatLaf 1.0 released - Swing Look and Feel
modern open-source cross-platform Look and Feel for Java desktop applications
October 2019: FlatLaf - Flat Look and Feel
modern open-source cross-platform Look and Feel for Java desktop applications
June 2019: JFormDesigner Marketplace Edition released
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in for JetBrains Marketplace
May 2019: JFormDesigner 7 released
Eclipse plug-in: Refactoring integration improved
Java 9 - 12 support
New icon/image chooser dialog
February 2017: JFormDesigner 6 released
MigLayout support
Support for HiDPI monitors
New modern icons
New modern user interface
December 2014: 10 Years JFormDesigner
May 2014: JFormDesigner 5.2 released
JDeveloper plug-in
Java 8 support
GroupLayout design improved
April 2012: JFormDesigner 5.1 released
NetBeans plug-in
Java 7 support
JFDML persistence format
April 2011: JFormDesigner 5 released
Beans Binding (JSR 295)
BeanInfo Annotations
Improved Properties view
Styled text
June 2010: Started the JFormDesigner / FormDev blog
July 2008: JFormDesigner 4 released
GroupLayout (Free Design)
JGoodies Forms 1.2 support
September 2007: JFormDesigner 3.1 released
Animated transitions
JBuilder plug-in
Relative font specification
Runtime library open sourced
November 2006: JFormDesigner 3 released
Eclipse plug-in
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in
Project manager
Java 5 support
September 2006: FormDev Software GmbH founded
October 2005: JFormDesigner 2 released
Menu designer
Localization
Events
Auto-insert columns/rows
December 2004: JFormDesigner 1 released
JGoodies FormLayout
TableLayout
Advanced GridBagLayout
Column and row headers
Move columns/rows
June 2004: First beta of JFormDesigner 1 released
August 2003: Started development of JFormDesigner

Partners

Paddle
Paddle is our worldwide reseller that securely processes orders of our products.

Paddle is a complete payment infrastructure provider for software companies. More than 3,000 customers selling through Paddle.

JetBrains s.r.o.
JetBrains processes orders for our IntelliJ IDEA plug-in.

JetBrains is a global software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams. Its product catalog includes award-winning tools such as IntelliJ IDEA.