Been tempted to do something similar, at times. 
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Been re-working and fixing up a clear example of software entrophy. The sad part is that this is a moderate-sized client part of a client-server application, and reached this state under the original author. So I have spent time (far too much time) looking at fairly awful code.
At the same time this has lead me to look at Swing more closely than I had need before. After poking around in the guts of javax.swing, I came away really unimpressed. Too many half-good ideas. Too much code. Not so much the tight and clean conceptual model one might hope for in “foundation” classes. Admittedly I was not in a very favorable frame of mind.
Looking at all the “loose” (of the late-binding sort) lashing, have to wonder if we’d not be better off using Javascript to describe UI component structures.
Wonder what the internals of SWT look like?
Years ago the local STOR (in Tustin) was replaced by Ikea. I had not looked before for the backstory.
From 1988: IKEA suit forces STOR to shelve catalog; home furnishings retailer claims copyright infringement
IKEA–with stores in 19 countries including two sites in the U.S.–contends that STOR replicated IKEAs’ furniture, furniture names, signs, testing machines, price tags, department names, color schemes, checkout areas, shopping carts, general store layout and design, and catalogs, and that this replication constitutes unfair competition and copyright infringement.
Um, yes, that would explain why the later Ikea store was so much like STOR.
From 1992: Observers hail Stor-Ikea merger – Stor Furnishings International Inc.; Ikea Svenska AB
Ikea’s announcement last week that it plans to buy City of Industry-based Stor Furnishings International Inc. was lauded by industry sources as a logical culmination of competition between the two furniture retailers and as the best deal for Stor shareholders.
Wonder if the STOR folk made money as copycats. Wonder is Ikea found a ready-made market at former STOR locations.
In any case, pretty cool that bnet.com is placing online stories that pre-date common use of the Internet.