BoxLayout – Vertical & Horizontal
In our example, we have a JFrame window. A FlowLayout Manager takes care of laying out the controls. We have three JPanels. JFrame’s FlowLayout Manager packs the JPanels and in our above screenshot, we have ample space to layout all three JPanels in a single row. First JPanel on the left and third JPanel on the Right, both are taken over by two BoxLayout managers. Both these panel pack the controls vertically. The Layout in the middle packs two JTextArea controls and this panel packs the TextArea horizontally. Note, there is JSeparator which divides both these JTextArea, and the separator run vertical.