I am writing a desktop java program and I am having trouble with checkbox placement and a border with a label around it. I want a group of 8 check boxes 2 rows of 4 very (one row on top of each ...

You can easily observe that using a java.awt.GridBagLayout manager requires writing more code; for example, the loop iteration contains three more lines.

While GridBagLayout proves a much more powerful standard Java layout manager, it remains unpopular because developers find it complicated and nonintuitive.