A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Currently the access methods to horizontal and vertical groups are private. They should be make public. When this layout manger was part of swing labs they were public.


JUSTIFICATION :
When constructing windows it would be useful to have public access to the groups directly from the layout manager as was when this was in swing labs.

This way I can use creational utilities (reusable code) to help build pages faster (coding effort not runtime)

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Please make these methods made public.
ACTUAL -
The methods are currently private.

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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Currently I use a custom reflection utility to gain access to the methods and invoke them.

example:

public static GroupLayout.Group getGroup(String type, GroupLayout layoutManager)
throws SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException, IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException
{
Method method = layoutManager.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("get" + type + "Group") ;
method.setAccessible(true) ;
return (GroupLayout.Group) method.invoke(layoutManager) ;
}
}