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. Thousands of customers worldwide use our tools.
Our founder, Karl Tauber, has more than 15 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 (no support)
- +49 (8104) 66 82 57
- 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
- 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
- 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
Digital River GmbH (share-it)
Digital River GmbH (share-it) is our worldwide reseller that securely processes orders of our products.Digital River GmbH (share-it) is a global e-commerce provider for Internet software and shareware sales. More than 10,000 satisfied shareware authors and software vendors from more than 150 countries trust their innovative and comprehensive online solution.