As you know the Container (as JFrame, JPanel, ...) used to store the control of its, however they may or may not default arrangement of objects is not our desired. So we need to use to do this Layout. In other words the Layout help we can arrange the containers in a reasonable manner and beautiful.

Content
Create and place for Container BorderLayout
Create log frame with BorderLayout

BorderLayout allows us to arrange the objects in 5 main areas (NORTH, SOUTH, WEST, EAST và CENTER) as shown below:

Also we can replace it with PAGE_START, PAGE_END, LINE_START, LINE_END, CENTER then also obtained such layout.

Code generated BorderLayout

package nguyenvanquan7826.BorderLayout;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class MyBorderLayout extends JFrame {

	public MyBorderLayout() {
		createJFrame();
	}

	private void createJFrame() {
		setTitle("My BorderLayout");
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setSize(400, 300);
		// set BorderLayout for JFrame
		setLayout(new BorderLayout());

		// add content
		add(new JButton("NORTH"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
		add(new JButton("WEST"), BorderLayout.WEST);
		add(new JButton("CENTER"), BorderLayout.CENTER);
		add(new JButton("EAST"), BorderLayout.EAST);
		add(new JButton("SOUTH"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);

		setLocationRelativeTo(null);
		setVisible(true);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new MyBorderLayout();
	}
}

We have 2 BorderLayout constructor method:
– BorderLayout(): BorderLayout initialized with the distance between the default position 0.
– BorderLayout(int hgap, int vgap): BorderLayout initialized with the distance between the designated position horizontally and vertically.

Create a log frame using BorderLayout

The BorderLayout we use is very common for our program. For example below is an example of log frame using BorderLayout.
Logging framework used 1 JPanel is MainPanel placed BorderLayout, MainPanel contains 5 JPanel with (itemPanel) placed respectively at 5 location of BorderLayout as known. In which the 3 ItemPanel in position WEST, CENTER EAST and then there 1 GridLayout including 2 line and 1 post.

package nguyenvanquan7826.BorderLayout;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JPasswordField;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

public class LoginFrame extends JFrame {

	public LoginFrame() {
		createJFrame();
	}

	// create JFrame
	private void createJFrame() {
		setTitle("Login use BorderLayout");
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setSize(300, 150);
		// add main panel
		add(createMainPanel());
		// display
		setLocationRelativeTo(null);
		setVisible(true);
	}

	// create main panel
	private JPanel createMainPanel() {
		JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(10, 10));
		panel.add(createTitlePanel(), BorderLayout.NORTH);
		panel.add(createNamePanel(), BorderLayout.WEST);
		panel.add(createInputPanel(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
		panel.add(createStatusPanel(), BorderLayout.EAST);
		panel.add(createLoginButtonPanel(), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
		return panel;
	}

	// create title panel
	private JPanel createTitlePanel() {
		JPanel panel = new JPanel();
		panel.add(new JLabel("Login to my Blog"));
		return panel;
	}

	// create name item
	private JPanel createNamePanel() {
		JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(2, 1, 5, 5));
		panel.add(new JLabel("User name"));
		panel.add(new JLabel("Password"));
		return panel;
	}

	// create input panel
	private JPanel createInputPanel() {
		JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(2, 1, 5, 5));
		panel.add(new JTextField(20));
		panel.add(new JPasswordField(20));
		return panel;
	}

	// create status panel
	private JPanel createStatusPanel() {
		JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(2, 1, 5, 5));
		panel.add(new JLabel("Wrong"));
		panel.add(new JLabel("Wrong"));
		return panel;
	}

	// create login button panel
	private JPanel createLoginButtonPanel(){
		JPanel panel = new JPanel();
		panel.add(new JButton("Login"));
		return panel;
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new LoginFrame();
	}
}

The footnote in the code was relatively clear explanation of what we do, is just a little note in the Enter the password we use JPasswordField.

Refer to at: class BorderLayout, use BorderLayout